Ecology Of African Pastoralist Societies
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Author | : Katherine Homewood |
Publisher | : Ohio University Press |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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A synthesis of the literature on pastoralist societies, this book presents a discussion of their importance for African societies. It is aimed at the scholars and practitioners concerned with Africa's livestock keeping people.
Author | : Andrew B. Smith |
Publisher | : Ohio University Press |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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This book gives an historical account of the development of pastoralism in Africa, and its adaptation to the open grasslands which cover large parts of the continents. How African pastoralists cope with their environment varies in social terms, but ultimately these social constraints still have to deal with the vagaries of localised and seasonal rainfall which lead to inconsistencies in the availability of pasture. Pastoralism has been a successful adaptation for thousands of years, so we must ask why many of Africa's herdsmen are under pressure at the end of the twentieth century. A number of serious droughts blighted Africa in the 1970s and '80s, affecting the rural peoples, be they farmers or herders. Other questions lead from this: have these been unusually severe events, resulting in difficult adjustments for African pastoral peoples? And, if these drought conditions are part of the regular long-term climatic cycle, what has been so significant about the '70s and '80s? Pastoralism in Africa attempts to answer these questions by using ecological evidence from prehistory to enlarge understanding of the vicissitudes of herding societies in Africa today. The origins and spread of herding systems throughout the continent are examined with the underlying idea that understanding the growth of pastoral production in the past allows for a more sympathetic treatment of indigenous social formations based on tradition and experience, thus enabling governments and development agencies to formulate adaptive strategies suited to specific environments and the peoples that inhabit them. The book will interest archaeologists, development workers, anthropologists and students of African history.
Author | : Michael Bollig |
Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 544 |
Release | : 2013-07-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0857459090 |
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Pastoralism has shaped livelihoods and landscapes on the African continent for millennia. Mobile livestock husbandry has generally been portrayed as an economic strategy that successfully met the challenges of low biomass productivity and environmental variability in arid and semi-arid environments. This volume focuses on the emergence, diversity, and inherent dynamics of pastoralism in Africa based on research during a twelve-year period on the southwest and northeast regions. Unraveling the complex prehistory, history, and contemporary political ecology of African pastoralism, results in insight into the ingenuity and flexibility of historical and contemporary herders.
Author | : Donald Zhang Osborn |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 574 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Fula (African people) |
ISBN | : |
Download A Political Ecology of Pastoralism in the Inland Niger Delta of Mali Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Author | : Elliot M. Fratkin |
Publisher | : Boulder, Colo. : L. Rienner Publishers |
Total Pages | : 247 |
Release | : 1994-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9781555873226 |
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In this text, scholars of African pastoralist societies present overviews of their fields of specialisation and in-depth analyses of their research data. The discussions stress the interrelationships among differing social, economic, ecological and biological aspects of African pastoralism.
Author | : Yanda, Pius Zebhe |
Publisher | : Mkuki na Nyota Publishers |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 2018-08-03 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9987753922 |
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Pastoralism and Climate Change in East Africa provides systematic and robust empirical investigations on the impact of climate change on pastoral production systems, as well as participating in the ongoing debate over the efficacy of traditional pastoralism. This book is an initial product of the Project Building Knowledge to Support Climate Change Adaptation for Pastoralist Communities in East Africa implemented by the Centre for Climate Change Studies of the University of Dar es Salaam with support from the Open Society Initiative for Eastern Africa. Traditional pastoralism has proved to be a resilient and unique system of adaptations in a dynamic process of unpredictable climatic variability and continuous human interactions with the natural environment in dryland ecosystems. Pastoral adaptations and climate-induced innovative coping mechanisms have strategically been embedded in the indigenous social structures and resource management value systems. Pastoral livelihoods have, nevertheless, become increasingly vulnerable to climate change impacts as a result of prolonged marginalization and harmful external interventions. The negative effect of global climate change has been an added dimension to the already prevailing crisis in the pastoral livelihood system, which is substantially driven by non-climatic factors of internal and external pressures of change such as population growth, bad governance and shrinking rangelands lost to competing activities.
Author | : Mohamed Abdel Rahim Mohamed Salih |
Publisher | : Pluto Press (UK) |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2001-07-20 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |
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A dozen papers from the international conference Resource Competition and Sustainable Development in Eastern and Southern Africa, held in October 1999 at an undisclosed location, investigate whether resource conflicts are structurally inherent in sustainable development. The contributors, social and environmental scientists from Africa and Europe, conclude that sustainable development masks institutions that have to deal with natural resource use, allocation, administration, and management. Distributed by Stylus Publishing. c. Book News Inc.
Author | : P. Nick Kardulias |
Publisher | : University Press of Colorado |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2015-04-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1607323435 |
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In The Ecology of Pastoralism, diverse contributions from archaeologists and ethnographers address pastoralism’s significant impact on humanity’s basic subsistence and survival, focusing on the network of social, political, and religious institutions existing within various societies dependent on animal husbandry. Pastoral peoples, both past and present, have organized their relationships with certain animals to maximize their ability to survive and adapt to a wide range of conditions over time. Contributors show that despite differences in landscape, environment, and administrative and political structures, these societies share a major characteristic—high flexibility. Based partially on the adaptability of various domestic animals to difficult environments and partially on the ability of people to establish networks allowing them to accommodate political, social, and economic needs, this flexibility is key to the survival of complex pastoral systems and serves as the connection among the varied cultures in the volume. In The Ecology of Pastoralism, a variety of case studies from a broad geographic sampling uses archaeological and contemporary data and offers a new perspective on the study of pastoralism, making this volume a valuable contribution to current research in the area.
Author | : International Livestock Centre for Africa |
Publisher | : ILRI (aka ILCA and ILRAD) |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 1977-01-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : John G Galaty |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 311 |
Release | : 2019-03-04 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0429714602 |
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African pastoralists have been devastated by drought, famine and dislocation, yet herding remains the most viable system of support for the inhabitants of the vast arid and semi-arid zones. Using case studies of the Tswana and the San, the interlacustrine pastoralists, the Masai and Mursi of East Africa, and the multi-ethnic regional systems of Lak