num_pages: 240
description: Following basic themes in each chapter, this text makes an ethnographic and historical examination of nomadic pastoral societies in Africa, the Near East, Iranian Plateau, and Central Eurasia. It studies the cattlekeepers, the camel nomads, the good shepherds of southwest Asia, the horseriders, the yakbreeders, and the enduring nomad. For anthropologists and all those interested in nomadic cultures.
language: English
title: The Nomadic Alternative
titlecomplete: The Nomadic Alternative
genres: Anthropology, History
ratings_count: 19
publisher: Prentice Hall