The Nature of Nomadism: A Comparative Study of Pastoral Migrations

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Éditeur : University of Chicago press	Date & Lieu : 1969-01-01, Chicago
Préface :	Pages : 204
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Langue : Anglais	Format : 150x215 mm
Code FIKP : Liv. Eng. Joh. Nat. N° 5359	Thème : Sociologie

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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 ...

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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments / iii
Preface / v
List of Illustrations / viii

Chapter

I. Aspects of Pastoral Nomadism / 1
The Ecological Compulsions of Pastoral Nomadism
Herding Animals
Dependence on Agriculture
Nomadism as a Continuum: Some Classifications

II. Case Studies of Pastoral Nomadism:
Southwestern Asia / 20
Nomads of Southwestern Turkey: The Yörük
Nomads Patterns in Southeast Anatolia: The Kurds
The North Arabian Bedouin
The Mountain Nomads of Iran: Basseri and Bakhtiari
The Marri Baluch
The Pashtûn Nomads of Afghanistan£

III. Case Studies of Pastoral Nomadism:
Northern Africa / 82
The Kabābīsh of Kurdufān
The Pastoralists of Cyrenaica
The Arbaa and Saïd Atba
The Beni Mguild
The Chaamba
Pastoral Regimes of Mauritania
The Tuareg
The Tibbu of Tibesti and Borku

IV. A Classification of Pastoral Migrations / 166
Bibliography / 185

List of Illustrations

1. Yörük of Pamphylia and Pisidia / 27
2. Kurds of Southeast Anatolia / 35
3. Ruwala / 41
4. Muμtir / 49
5. Basseri of Fars / 57
6. Bakhtiari / 61
7. Marri Baluch / 69
8. Pashifui Nomads of Afghanistan / 79
9. KababTsh of Kurdufān / 87
10. Pastoralists of Cyrenaica / 95
11. Arbaa and Saïd Atha / 101
12. Beni Mguild of the Middle Atlas / 111
13. Chaamba of the Northern Sahara / 117
14. Reguibat Legouacem of Northern Mauritania / 125
15. Nomads of Central and Southern Mauritania / 129
16. Tuareg of Ahaggar / 139
17. Southern Tuareg / 147
18. Teda of Tibesti / 153
19. Daza of Borku / 155
20. Cartograms of Horizontal Nomadism / 167
21. Cartograms of Vertical Nomadism / 171