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Herders, warriors, and traders : pastoralism in Africa / edited by John G. Galaty and Pierre Bonte. [print]

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: African modernization and development seriesPublication details: Boulder : Westview Press, [(c)1991.Description: xviii, 338 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0813380677
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • GN645.H473 1991
  • GN645.B722.H473 1991
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Contents:
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.
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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.

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