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Changing Nomads in a Changing World

Changing Nomads in a Changing World

Joseph Ginat
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This volume brings together leading anthropologists who discuss how pastoralists are coping and changing as the societies they inhabit change at an unprecedented pace. The various issues pertaining to the different geographic areas covered are united by a general theme: socioeconomic and cultural changes in contemporary pastoralist societies and groups. These changes are far from being spontaneous. They result from the painful adaptation of the mobile and extensive pastoralists to the modern world, in which pastoralists occupy only a marginal and inferior economic and social position. Discussion focuses on the worldwide deterioration of the socio-political and economic standing of the pastoralist, the historical factors of colonization/de-colonization, and how modernizing sedentary society—with its technological inventions, modern infrastructure, and national requirements of taxation and education—impacts on change in nomadic societies.
Language
English
Pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Sussex Academic Press
Release
April 19, 1998
ISBN
1845191994
ISBN 13
9781845191993

Changing Nomads in a Changing World

Joseph Ginat
0/5 ( ratings)
This volume brings together leading anthropologists who discuss how pastoralists are coping and changing as the societies they inhabit change at an unprecedented pace. The various issues pertaining to the different geographic areas covered are united by a general theme: socioeconomic and cultural changes in contemporary pastoralist societies and groups. These changes are far from being spontaneous. They result from the painful adaptation of the mobile and extensive pastoralists to the modern world, in which pastoralists occupy only a marginal and inferior economic and social position. Discussion focuses on the worldwide deterioration of the socio-political and economic standing of the pastoralist, the historical factors of colonization/de-colonization, and how modernizing sedentary society—with its technological inventions, modern infrastructure, and national requirements of taxation and education—impacts on change in nomadic societies.
Language
English
Pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Sussex Academic Press
Release
April 19, 1998
ISBN
1845191994
ISBN 13
9781845191993

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