TY - BOOK AU - Galaty,John G. AU - Bonte,Pierre TI - Herders, warriors, and traders: pastoralism in Africa AV - GN645 .H473 1991 PY - 1991/// CY - Boulder PB - Westview Press KW - Herders KW - Africa KW - Economic anthropology N1 - 1 (pages 293.-327) and index; Pt. 1. Introduction. 1. Introduction; Pierre Bonte and John G. Galaty --; Pt. 2. Cattle and culture: domestic animals as value and sign. 2. "How beasts lost their legs": cattle in Tswana economy and society; Jean Comaroff and John L. Comaroff. 3. "To increase cows, God created the king": the function of cattle in intralacustrine societies; Pierre Bonte --; 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; Neal Sobania --; Pt. 4. Warfare, expansion and pastoral ethnicity. 6. Movement, warfare and ethnicity in the Lower Omo Valley; 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 --; Pt. 5. Hierarchy and inequality in regional systems. 9. Herders, hunters and siths: mobile populations in the history of Kanem; Edouard Conte. 10. Pastro-foragers to "bushmen": transformations in Kalahari relations of property, production and labor; Edwin Wilmsen --; Pt. 6. Conclusion. 11. The current realities of African pastoralists; John G. Galaty and Pierre Bonte; 2 ER -