Pastoralists
Subtitle: Equality, Hierarchy, and the State
Publisher: Westview Press
Published: February 1, 2004
Place of publication: Boulder, Colorado, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 193
ISBN-13: 9780813338149
Subjects: Social & cultural anthropology; Social classes; Social history; Sociology - General; Religion; Sociology; State, The; Social Science / Sociology / General; Pastoral systems; Christian Ministry - Pastoral Resources; Nomads; Christianity - Pastoral Ministry
First sentence: The raising of domesticated animals is a major activity in societies around the world (Galaty and Johnson 1990).
Description: "Drawing upon the author's extensive field research among pastoral peoples in the Middle East, India, and the Mediterranean, and his more than 30 years of comparative study of pastoralists around the world, Pastoralists is a synthesis of the varieties of pastoral life. At an ethnographic level, this 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."--Jacket.