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Author |
: Letizia Bindi |
Publisher |
: Berghahn Books |
Total Pages |
: 326 |
Release |
: 2022-05-13 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781800734760 |
ISBN-13 |
: 180073476X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (60 Downloads) |
Synopsis Grazing Communities by : Letizia Bindi
Pastoralism is a diffused and ancient form of human subsistence and probably one of the most studied by anthropologists at the crossroads between continuities and transformations. The present critical discourse on sustainable and responsible development implies a change of practices, a huge socio-economic transformation, and the return of new shepherds and herders in different European regions. Transhumance and extensive breeding are revitalized as a potential resource for inner and rural areas of Europe against depopulation and as an efficient form of farming deeply influencing landscape and functioning as a perfect eco-system service. This book is an occasion to reconsider grazing communities’ frictions in the new global heritage scenario.
Author |
: Andy Catley |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 315 |
Release |
: 2013 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780415540711 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0415540712 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (11 Downloads) |
Synopsis Pastoralism and Development in Africa by : Andy Catley
A view of 'development at the margins' in the pastoral areas of the Horn of Africa highlights innovation and entrepreneurialism, cooperation and networking and diverse approaches rarely in line with standard development prescriptions. Through twenty detailed empirical chapters, the book highlights diverse pathways of development, going beyond the standard 'aid' and 'disaster' narratives.
Author |
: Michael Bollig |
Publisher |
: Berghahn Books |
Total Pages |
: 544 |
Release |
: 2013-07-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780857459091 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0857459090 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (91 Downloads) |
Synopsis Pastoralism in Africa by : Michael Bollig
Pastoralism has shaped livelihoods and landscapes on the African continent for millennia. Mobile livestock husbandry has generally been portrayed as an economic strategy that successfully met the challenges of low biomass productivity and environmental variability in arid and semi-arid environments. This volume focuses on the emergence, diversity, and inherent dynamics of pastoralism in Africa based on research during a twelve-year period on the southwest and northeast regions. Unraveling the complex prehistory, history, and contemporary political ecology of African pastoralism, results in insight into the ingenuity and flexibility of historical and contemporary herders.
Author |
: Anja Wagner |
Publisher |
: Berghahn Books |
Total Pages |
: 214 |
Release |
: 2013-06-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780857459305 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0857459309 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (05 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Gaddi Beyond Pastoralism by : Anja Wagner
The Gaddi of North India are agro-pastoralists who rear sheep and goats following a seasonal migration around the first Himalayan range. While studies on pastoralists have focused either on the pastoralists’ adaptation to their physical environment or treated the environment from a symbolic perspective, this book offers a new, holistic perspective that analyzes the ways in which people “make” place. Based on extensive fieldwork, this book not only describes a contemporary understanding of the Gaddi’s engagement with the environment but also analyzes religious practices and performances of social relations, as well as media practices and notions of aesthetics. Thereby, the landscape in which the Gaddi live is understood as a network of places that is constantly being built and rebuilt through these local practices. The book contributes to the growing interest in approaches of practice within environmental anthropology.
Author |
: Philip Carl Salzman |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 221 |
Release |
: 2018-02-13 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780429978081 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0429978081 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (81 Downloads) |
Synopsis Pastoralists by : Philip Carl Salzman
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.
Author |
: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations |
Publisher |
: Food & Agriculture Org. |
Total Pages |
: 108 |
Release |
: 2001 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9251046735 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9789251046739 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (35 Downloads) |
Synopsis Pastoralism in the New Millenium by : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Pastoralism refers to the type of farming system which uses extensive grazing on grasslands for livestock production. This type of farming covers 25 per cent of the world's land area and supports 20 million households. It makes substantial contributions to the economies of developing countries, although agricultural encroachment, conflict and drought continue to erode this way of life. This publication considers key policy issues and trends involved in attempts to improve the livelihoods of pastoralist families and communities.
Author |
: Alicia R. Ventresca Miller |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 288 |
Release |
: 2017-09-18 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781351389914 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1351389912 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (14 Downloads) |
Synopsis Isotopic Investigations of Pastoralism in Prehistory by : Alicia R. Ventresca Miller
Pastoralists were a vital economic and social force in ancient societies around the globe, transforming landscapes poorly suited for agriculture into spaces of vast productive potential while simultaneously connecting mobile and sedentary communities alike across considerable distances. Drawing from the rich archaeological records of Asia, Africa, and Europe, Isotopic Investigations of Pastoralism in Prehistory brings together the latest studies employing heavy and light stable isotopic analyses of humans and animals to investigate pastoralist diets, movement, and animal management strategies. The contributions presented in this volume highlight new methodological developments while simultaneously drawing attention to the diverse environmental factors that contribute to isotopic variation in human, plant, and animal tissues. Particular attention is paid to how pastoralist decisions regarding animal pasturing and mobility can be teased out of complex isotopic datasets, and also to the challenges in extracting information on the scales of human mobility in pastoralist landscapes. This volume will appeal to scholars in archaeology, anthropology, and ecology, as well as those with interests in animal management.
Author |
: Echi Christina Gabbert |
Publisher |
: Berghahn Books |
Total Pages |
: 337 |
Release |
: 2021-01-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781805393788 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1805393782 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (88 Downloads) |
Synopsis Lands of the Future by : Echi Christina Gabbert
Rangeland, 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’.
Author |
: Charlotte Marchina |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: |
Release |
: 2021-07-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9463721428 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9789463721424 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (28 Downloads) |
Synopsis Nomadic Pastoralism Among the Mongol Herders by : Charlotte Marchina
This book, based on anthropological research carried out by the author between 2008 and 2016, addresses the spatial features of nomadic pastoralism among the Mongol herders of Mongolia and Southern Siberia from a cross-comparative perspective. In addition to classical methods of survey, Charlotte Marchina innovatively used GPS recordings to analyse the ways in which pastoralists envision and concretely occupy the landscape, which they share with their animals and invisible entities. The data, represented in abundant and original cartography, provides a better understanding of the mutual adaptations of both herders and animals in the common use of unfenced pastures, not only between different herders but also between different species. The author also highlights the herders' adaptive strategies at a time of rapid socio-political and environmental changes in these areas of the world.
Author |
: Anne Porter |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 401 |
Release |
: 2012-03-26 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780521764438 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0521764432 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (38 Downloads) |
Synopsis Mobile Pastoralism and the Formation of Near Eastern Civilizations by : Anne Porter
This book explores the roles of mobile and sedentary members of the ancient world in ancient Mesopotamia.