Pastoralist societies face more threats to their way of life now than at any previous time.
Population growth; loss of herding lands to private farms, ranches, game parks, and urban …

The radical shift in human reproduction in the late 19th century, known as the demographic
transition, constitutes a major challenge to evolutionary approaches to human behaviour …

Drawing upon the author's extensive field research among pastoral peoples in the Middle
East, India, and the Mediterranean, and on more than 30 years of comparative study of …

Since all-out interstate wars for the time being seem to belong to the past, con flict studies
focus more and more on domestic conflicts. This is a broad field, not only because the …

The Kenyan Government introduced group ranches in Kajiado District in the 1960s. They
were aimed at addressing the problem of overgrazing and land degradation, said to be …

This paper reviews the current process whereby Group Ranches under private title are
being subdivided into unequal individual family holdings, and examines local political …

This paper examines the recently growing adoption of non-pastoral livelihood strategies
among the Borana pastoralists in southern Ethiopia. A large portion of the current non …

Controversy exists among anthropologists, conservation biologists, and development
workers as to whether the concept of the “ecologically noble savage” is a myth. Central to …

Evolutionary and economic models of the demographic transition argue that economic
development incentivizes low-fertility, high-investment parental strategies, and that such …

Little of the current focus on landscape fragmentation has focused on rangelands or pastoral
lands. This paper investigates the existing evidence for causes and processes of …