The Nature of Nomadism: A Comparative Study of Pastoral Migrations

The Nature of Nomadism: A Comparative Study of Pastoral Migrations

Douglas L. Johnson

The University of Chicago

Important works dealing with nomads and their genre de vie have been published in a wide variety of languages and, for an American, are often located in the most obscure places. Few people are capable of comprehending and evaluating the full scope of the literature in this field1 and the present study, while it does bring together a considerable body of previous scholarship, does not pretend to do so. For while the bibliography accompanying the case studies is large, it is suggestive rather than exhaustive.
A cmniction that existing classifications of ...