Pastoralists

Description

Drawing upon the author's extensive field research among pastoral peoples in the Middle East, India, and the Mediterranean, and on more than 30 years of comparative study of pastoralists around the world, Pastoralists is an authoritative synthesis of the varieties of pastoral life. At an ethnographic level, the concise volume provides detailed analyses of divergent types of pastoral societies, including segmentary tribes, tribal chiefdoms, and peasant pastoralists. At the same time, it addresses a set of substantive theoretical issues: ecological and cultural variation, equality and inequality, hierarchy and the basis of power, and state power and resistance. The book validates "pastoralists" as a conceptual category even as it reveals the diversity of societies, subsistence strategies, and power arrangements subsumed by that term.

Description

"Drawing upon the author's extensive field research among pastoral peoples in the Middle East, India, and the Mediterranean, and his more than 30 years of comparative study of pastoralists around the world, Pastoralists is a synthesis of the varieties of pastoral life. At an ethnographic level, this volume provides detailed analyses of divergent types of pastoral societies including segmentary tribes, tribal chiefdoms, and peasant pastoralists. At the same time, it addresses a set of substantive theoretical issues."--Jacket.

First Sentence

The raising of domesticated animals is a major activity in societies around the world (Galaty and Johnson 1990).

Subjects

Other Editions

• Pastoralists: Equality, Hierarchy, and the StatePaperbackWestview Press2004-02-01
• PastoralistsTaylor & Francis Group2001-01-01
• PastoralistsHardcoverWestview Press2004-04-01
• PastoralistsAvalon Publishing2009-01-01
• PastoralistsTaylor & Francis Group2018-01-01
• PastoralistsTaylor & Francis Group2018-01-01