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Changing Nomads in a Changing World

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Description for Changing Nomads in a Changing World Hardback. Discusses how pastoralists are coping and changing as the societies they inhabit change at an unprecedented pace. Editor(s): Ginat, Joseph; Khazanov, Anatoly M. Num Pages: 258 pages. BIC Classification: JFSL9; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 160 x 26. Weight in Grams: 406.
This volume, which contains a chapter entitled Great Scholar, Great Man, Great Friend (Remembering Ernest Gellner) , brings together leading anthropologists who discuss how pastoralists are coping and changing as the societies they inhabit change at an unprecedented pace. The different issues pertaining to the different geographic areas covered are united by a general theme: socio-economic 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 (some scholars would argue already post-modern) world, in which pastoralists occupy only a marginal and inferior economic and social position. This is true even with regard to Middle Eastern countries, although in some of them a social prestige connected with pastoralism is still quite high. Discussion focuses on the world-wide deterioration of the socio-political and economic standing of the pastoralist, the historical factors of colonisation/de-colonisation, and how modernising sedentary society (with its technological inventions, modern infrastructure, and national requirements of taxation and education) impacts on change in nomadic societies.

Product Details

Publisher
Sussex Academic Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
258
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Weight
405g
Number of Pages
258
Place of Publication
Brighton, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781845191993
SKU
V9781845191993
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Ref
99-50

About Joseph Ginat
Joseph Ginat, formerly Chairman of the Jewish-Arab Center at the University of Haifa, and a former Director of the Israeli Academic Center in Cairo, is currently working with the Egyptian scholar Maha El-Rashidi on methods of conflict resolution. Anatoly M. Khazanov is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. A Fellow of the British Academy, an Honorary Member of the Jenghiz-Khan Society in Mongolia, and a 19934 Guggenheim Fellow, he is author of Nomads and the Outside World.

Reviews for Changing Nomads in a Changing World
The contributors discuss how pastoralists deal with and are themselves transformed by the unprecedented changes taking place in the societies they inhabit. Also included is a tribute by Khazanov to the anthropologist Ernest Gellner. Choice

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