Herders, warriors, and traders : pastoralism in Africa /
Herders, warriors, and traders : pastoralism in Africa /
edited by John G. Galaty and Pierre Bonte.
- Boulder : Westview Press, (c)1991.
- xviii, 338 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
Pt. 1. Introduction. 1. Introduction Pt. 2. Cattle and culture: domestic animals as value and sign. 2. "How beasts lost their legs": cattle in Tswana economy and society Pt. 3. Exchange, ecology and the "common economy." 4. Political ecology in the Upper Nile: the twentieth century expansion of the pastoral "common economy" / Douglas H. Johnson. 5. Feasts, famines and friends: ninetheenth century exchange and ethnicity in the eastern Lake Turkana region Pierre Bonte and John G. Galaty -- Jean Comaroff and John L. Comaroff. 3. "To increase cows, God created the king": the function of cattle in intralacustrine societies Pierre Bonte -- Neal Sobania -- Pt. 4. Warfare, expansion and pastoral ethnicity. 6. Movement, warfare and ethnicity in the Lower Omo Valley Pt. 5. Hierarchy and inequality in regional systems. 9. Herders, hunters and siths: mobile populations in the history of Kanem Pt. 6. Conclusion. 11. The current realities of African pastoralists David Turton. 7. Pastoral orbits and deadly jousts: factors in the Maasai expansion John G. Galaty. 8. Herders, traders and clerics: the impact of trade, religion and warfare on the evolution of Moorish society Abdel Wedoud Ould Cheikh -- Edouard Conte. 10. Pastro-foragers to "bushmen": transformations in Kalahari relations of property, production and labor Edwin Wilmsen -- John G. Galaty and Pierre Bonte.
91025206
C92-8036-7
Herders--Africa.
Economic anthropology--Africa.
GN645 / .H473 1991 GN645
GN645.H45 / 1991
Pt. 1. Introduction. 1. Introduction Pt. 2. Cattle and culture: domestic animals as value and sign. 2. "How beasts lost their legs": cattle in Tswana economy and society Pt. 3. Exchange, ecology and the "common economy." 4. Political ecology in the Upper Nile: the twentieth century expansion of the pastoral "common economy" / Douglas H. Johnson. 5. Feasts, famines and friends: ninetheenth century exchange and ethnicity in the eastern Lake Turkana region Pierre Bonte and John G. Galaty -- Jean Comaroff and John L. Comaroff. 3. "To increase cows, God created the king": the function of cattle in intralacustrine societies Pierre Bonte -- Neal Sobania -- Pt. 4. Warfare, expansion and pastoral ethnicity. 6. Movement, warfare and ethnicity in the Lower Omo Valley Pt. 5. Hierarchy and inequality in regional systems. 9. Herders, hunters and siths: mobile populations in the history of Kanem Pt. 6. Conclusion. 11. The current realities of African pastoralists David Turton. 7. Pastoral orbits and deadly jousts: factors in the Maasai expansion John G. Galaty. 8. Herders, traders and clerics: the impact of trade, religion and warfare on the evolution of Moorish society Abdel Wedoud Ould Cheikh -- Edouard Conte. 10. Pastro-foragers to "bushmen": transformations in Kalahari relations of property, production and labor Edwin Wilmsen -- John G. Galaty and Pierre Bonte.
91025206
C92-8036-7
Herders--Africa.
Economic anthropology--Africa.
GN645 / .H473 1991 GN645
GN645.H45 / 1991