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Title

Pastoralists at the periphery : herders in a capitalist world / edited by Claudia Chang and Harold A. Koster.

Publication

Tucson : University of Arizona Press, c1994.

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Additional Authors

• Chang, Claudia.
• Koster, Harold A. (Harold Albert), 1947-

Description

xiv, 262 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.

Summary

A Baluch tribesman follows his goats as they search for a bit of vegetation; a Turkana youth guards his father's cattle against theft by raiders. ... These pastoral inhabitants of mountain and desert waste are considered to be among the most geographically, economically, and politically peripheral of peoples, yet they are not entirely isolated from broader sociopolitical and economic forces. The lives of modern pastoralists are greatly affected by the policies of nations and the demands of world markets. They may face military control, forced settlement, stock reduction programs or even efforts at "development" by governments claiming sovereignty over the lands they roam. The authors of this collection of essays examine the impact of capitalism on nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century pastoralists and discuss the historical transformations that have occurred in the lives and societies of herding peoples around the world. They argue that pastoralists were not simply passive recipients of change imposed by capitalist polities and that historical and economic factors impinging on their societies were as important as ecological ones. Collectively, these papers demonstrate that twentieth-century pastoralists and their nineteenth-century predecessors should not be seen as immutably locked in a pastoral "mode of production" but rather as actively negotiating encounters between themselves and the expanding power of capitalist states.

Subject

• Pastoral systems > History > 19th century
• Pastoral systems > Cross-cultural studies
• Pastoral systems > Economic aspects
• Capitalism

Genre/Form

• Cross-cultural studies
• History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-251) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Contributors -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction / Harold A. Koster and Claudia Chang -- PART 1: PASTORALISTS AND THE INTERNATIONAL WOOL TRADE: 1. Incorporation or Resistance? Pastoral Relations of Production in an Export Economy / Deborah A. Caro -- 2. Historical Bases of the Political Economy of Kermani Pastoralists: Tribe and World Markets in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries / Daniel Bradburd -- 3. Pastoralism, Material Culture, and the Market in the Southwestern United States / Klara B. Kelley -- 4. The Development of the Pastoral Industry in Australia During the Nineteenth Century / Bruce R. Davidson -- PART 2: PASTORALISTS AS RURAL PROLETARIANS: 5. "Life Underneath the Market": Herders and Gombeenmen in Nineteenth- Centurt Donegal / Eugenia Shanklin -- 6. The Growth of Parmesan Production in the Nineteenth Century: The View from the Land / Albert J. Ammerman -- 7. The Creation of Subsistence Foraging in the Colonial Era / Edwin N. Wilmsen -- PART 3: PASTORALISTS AT THE PERIPHERY OF THE WORLD MARKET: 8. Baluchi Nomads in the Market / Philip C. Salzman -- 9. Why are Yomut Not More Stratified? / William Irons -- 10. The Failure to Encapsulate: Resistance to the Penetration of Capitalism by the Turkana of Kenya / J. Terrence McCabe -- 11. Socioeconomics and Settlement in Lokop (Samburu) Blacksmithing / Roy Larick -- Bibliography -- Index.

ISBN

0816514305 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^93043080^

OCLC

• 29523042
• SCSB-10059126

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library