Pastoralists: Equality, Hierarchy, And The State

摘要: Drawing upon the author's extensive field research among pastoral peoples in Middle East, India, and Mediterranean, on more than 30 years of comparative study pastoralists around world, Pastoralists is an authoritative synthesis varieties life. At ethnographic level, concise volume provides detailed analyses divergent types societies, including segmentary tribes, tribal chiefdoms, peasant pastoralists. same time, it addresses a set substantive theoretical issues: ecological cultural variation, equality inequality, hierarchy basis power, state power resistance. The book validates "pastoralists" as conceptual category even reveals diversity subsistence strategies, arrangements subsumed by that term.