Sedentarization Among Nomadic Peoples in Asia and Africa
Author: Kazunobu Ikeya
Publisher:
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9784906962587
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Rethinking African Agriculture
Author: Goran Hyden
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-07-20
Total Pages: 299
ISBN-13: 0429879369
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRethinking African Agriculture argues that rural communities in Africa are still shaped by non-agrarian factors both in livelihood strategy and social formation. This volume renews and deepens the research on the African peasantry by offering a fresh perspective drawn from the hitherto largely unknown Japanese research on the subject. The ethnographic fieldwork focuses not only on the micro environment of the producers but also the broader historical context in which they live and work. The contributors argue that, in comparison with other regions of the world, Africa has never passed through an agrarian revolution that would effectively change the mode of production from within. Modernization efforts from the outside have fallen far short of the ambition to transform agriculture in Africa. Rural Africa is still largely a natural society characterized by "non-agrarian" features as evident in people’s livelihood, social organization, and farming systems. This book will be of interest to social scientists and anthropologists focusing on African development, agriculture and agrarian societies,
Bushmen
Author: Alan Barnard
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019-08
Total Pages: 221
ISBN-13: 1108418260
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA comprehensive and fascinating account of all the major groups of southern African hunter-gatherers.
Lands of the Future
Author: Echi Christina Gabbert
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2021-01-15
Total Pages: 346
ISBN-13: 1789209919
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRangeland, forests and riverine landscapes of pastoral communities in Eastern Africa are increasingly under threat. Abetted by states who think that outsiders can better use the lands than the people who have lived there for centuries, outside commercial interests have displaced indigenous dwellers from pastoral territories. This volume presents case studies from Eastern Africa, based on long-term field research, that vividly illustrate the struggles and strategies of those who face dispossession and also discredit ideological false modernist tropes like ‘backwardness’ and ‘primitiveness’.
Space, Place and Identity
Author: Florian Köhler
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2020-03-20
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13: 1789206375
DOWNLOAD EBOOKKnown as highly mobile cattle nomads, the Wodaabe in Niger are today increasingly engaged in a transformation process towards a more diversified livelihood based primarily on agro-pastoralism and urban work migration. This book examines recent transformations in spatial patterns, notably in the context of urban migration and in processes of sedentarization in rural proto-villages. The book analyses the consequences that the recent change entails for social group formation and collective identification, and how this impacts integration into wider society amid the structures of the modern nation state.
Nomadic Societies in the Middle East and North Africa
Author: Dawn Chatty
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2018-11-12
Total Pages: 1104
ISBN-13: 9047417755
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA scholarly volume devoted to an understanding of contemporary nomadic and pastoral societies in the Middle East and North Africa. This volume recognizes the variable mobile quality of the ways of life of these societies which persist in accommodating the ‘nation-state’ of the 20th and 21st century but remain firmly transnational and highly adaptive. Composed of four sections around the theme of contestation it includes examinations of contested authority and power, space and social transformation, development and economic transformation, and cultures and engendered spaces.
Pastoralism and Development in Africa
Author: Andy Catley
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-05-07
Total Pages: 315
ISBN-13: 1136255850
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOnce again, the Horn of Africa has been in the headlines. And once again the news has been bad: drought, famine, conflict, hunger, suffering and death. The finger of blame has been pointed in numerous directions: to the changing climate, to environmental degradation, to overpopulation, to geopolitics and conflict, to aid agency failures, and more. But it is not all disaster and catastrophe. Many successful development efforts at ‘the margins’ often remain hidden, informal, sometimes illegal; and rarely in line with standard development prescriptions. If we shift our gaze from the capital cities to the regional centres and their hinterlands, then a very different perspective emerges. These are the places where pastoralists live. They have for centuries struggled with drought, conflict and famine. They are resourceful, entrepreneurial and innovative peoples. Yet they have been ignored and marginalised by the states that control their territory and the development agencies who are supposed to help them. This book argues that, while we should not ignore the profound difficulties of creating secure livelihoods in the Greater Horn of Africa, there is much to be learned from development successes, large and small. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars with an interest in development studies and human geography, with a particular emphasis on Africa. It will also appeal to development policy-makers and practitioners.
Lifestyle and Livelihood Changes Among Formerly Nomadic Peoples
Author: A. Allan Degen
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published:
Total Pages: 353
ISBN-13: 3031511425
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Archaeology of Mobility
Author: Hans Barnard
Publisher: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press
Published: 2008-12-31
Total Pages: 617
ISBN-13: 1938770382
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThere have been edited books on the archaeology of nomadism in various regions, and there have been individual archaeological and anthropological monographs, but nothing with the kind of coverage provided in this volume. Its strength and importance lies in the fact that it brings together a worldwide collection of studies of the archaeology of mobility. This book provides a ready-made reference to this worldwide phenomenon and is unique in that it tries to redefine pastoralism within a larger context by the term mobility. It presents many new ideas and thoughtful approaches, especially in the Central Asian region.
Pastoralists
Author: Philip Carl Salzman
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-02-13
Total Pages: 221
ISBN-13: 0429978081
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDrawing 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.
