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Routledge
366 pages
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 La
Preface -- Introduction -- Introduction -- Cattle and Culture: Domestic Animals as Value and Sign -- "How Beasts Lost Their Legs": Cattle in Tswana Economy and Society -- "To Increase Cows, God Created the King": The Function of Cattle in Intralacustrine Societies1 -- Exchange, Ecology and the "Common Economy" -- Political Ecology in the Upper Nile: The Twentieth Century Expansion of the Pastoral "Common Economy" -- Feasts, Famines and Friends: Nineteenth Century Exchange and Ethnicity in the Eastern Lake Turkana Region1 -- Warfare, Expansion and Pastoral Ethnicity -- Movement, Warfare and Ethnicity in the Lower Omo Valley -- Pastoral Orbits and Deadly Jousts: Factors in the Maasai Expansion -- Herders, Traders and Clerics: The Impact of Trade, Religion and Warfare on the Evolution of Moorish Society -- Hierarchy and Inequality in Regional Systems -- Herders, Hunters and Smiths: Mobile Populations in the History of Kanem -- Pastoro-Foragers to "Bushmen": Transformations in Kalahari Relations of Property, Production and Labor -- Conclusion -- The Current Realities of African Pastoralists
