Pastoral Production and Society/Production pastorale et société

by Equipe Ecologie (Editor)

Overview

The essays in this volume were first published in 1979 and were written by specialists in different aspects of the study of pastoralism, covering all major groups of nomadic pastoralists. They show how the study of nomadic pastoralism can contribute to the understanding of the forms of human existence. The essays examine the relationships between the economic and social organization of pastoral societies and the ecological constraints to which they are subjected, discuss the factors which contribute to the emergence of social and economic inequalities within nomadic societies and analyse whether the evolution of pastoral society is a function of the contact which nomadic groups have with settled agricultural and urban societies or of the contradictions internal to pastoral societies themselves.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521294164
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	03/15/1979
Series:	MSH: Colloques
Pages:	508
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 1.10(d)

Table of Contents

Introduction: the specificity of nomadic pastoral societies Claude Lefébure; Part I. Patterns and Typologies/Modèles et Typologies: 1. A general model for pastoral social systems Walter Goldschmidt; 2. Saturation et sécurité: sur l'organisation des sociétés de pasteurs nomades Xavier de Planhol; 3. The organization of nomadic communities in pastoral societies of the Middle East Richard L. Tapper; Part II. Pastoral Production and Environmental Constraints/Production Pastorale et Contraintes du Milieu: 4. Le contrôle du milieu naturel et du troupeau par les éleveurs toaregs sahéliens Edmond Bernus; 5. Nomadisme et sécheresse en Afganistan: l'exemple des nomades Paštun du Dašt-e Nāwor Daniel Balland and Charles M. Keiffer; 6. Ayacucho (Pérou): le premier nomadisme pastoral andin Antoinette Nelken Terner; Part III. Access to Natural Resources and Social Organization/Accès aux Ressources Naturelles et Organisation Sociale: 7. Individuated grazing rights and social organization among the Shahsevan nomads of Azerbajan Richard L. Tapper; 8. Accès aux ressources collectives et structure sociale: l'estivage chez les Ayt Atta (Maroc) Claude Lefébure; 9. De la necéssité et des inconvénients, pour un Baxtyâri. Communaté, territoire et inégalitie chez des pasteurs nomades d'Iran Jean-Pierre Digard; 10. Structure de classe, pouvoir politique et organisation de l'espace en pays touareg André Bourgeot; 11. Conceptions de l'espace, division territoriale et divisions politiques chez les Mongols de l'époque post-impériale (XIVe–XVIIe siècles) Jaques Legrand; Part IV. Segmentarity, Social Classes, and Power/Segmentarité, Classes Sociales et Pouvoir: 12. Segmentarité et pouvoir chez les éleveurs nomades sahriens. Eléments d'une problématique Pierre Bonte; 13. Pastoralisme nomade et puvoir: la société traditionelle des Kel Ahaggar Marceau Gast; 14. The origin of the state among the nomads Lawrence Krader; 15. The uses of genealogy: a historical study of the nomadic and sendentarised Buryat Caroline Humphrey; Part V. Age-sets, Social Classes, and Power/Segmentarité, Classes Sociales et Pouvoir: 16. Ecology and equality: the Boran case Gudrun Dahl; 17. Political structure and the development of inequality among the Macha Oromo Jan Hultin; 18. Générations et royauté sacrée chez les Galla d'Ethipe Marc Abélès; 19. Générations, classes d'âges et superstructures: à propos de l'étude d'une ethnie du cercle karimojong (Afrique orientale); 20. Olpul and enteoroj: the economy of sharing among the pastoral Baraguyu of Tanzania Peter Rigby; Part VI. External Factors vs. Internal Dynamics in Social Differenciation/Facteurs Externes ou Dynamique Interne de la Différenciation Sociale: 21. Spatial mobility and political centralization in pastoral societies Philip Burnham; 22. Political stratification among pastoral nomads William Irons; 23. L'évolution des émirats maures sous l'effet du capitalisme marchand européen Constant Hamès; 24. Agriculteurs/éleveurs et domination du groupe pastoral Roger Botte; 25. Equality in nomadic systems? Notes towards the dissolution of an anthropological society Talal Asad; 26. Inequaility and oppression in nomadic society Philip C. Salzman; Part VII. Pastoral Production and Trade Production/Production Pastorale, Production Marchande: 27. The development of livestock trading in nomad pastoral economy: the Somali case Jeremy Swift; 28. A propos des Bédouins: une reéévaluation des rapports 'nomades-sédentaires' Jaques Vignet–Zunz; 29. Herdsmen, farmers, urban culture Owen Lattimore; Index.