Pastoral nomads have had a persistent fascination for anthropologists. Part of this
fascination is due to the fact that when mobility and livestock dependence coincide, they …

A wall is coming down in the anthropology of Africa. Symbolic and ecological concerns, for
decades treated as the separate provinces of different kinds of scholars, have lately been …

The main argument of the book is that specializations means more dependency: the more
specialized mobile pastoralists become, the more dependent they become, in turn, on the …

This contemporary introduction to the principles and research base of cultural ecology is the
ideal textbook for advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate courses that deal with …

Such non-chinese people as the rong, di, and hu are often portrayed in the traditional
historiography of ancient China as greedy, aggressive, and acquisitive (Sinor 1978; Honey …

More than 30 per cent of the earth's land surface is arid or semi-arid, and covers large areas
of Australia, North and South America, Asia and Africa. They mainly comprise of grazing …

ABSTRACT A number of programmes and policies in Laos are promoting the internal
resettlement of mostly indigenous ethnic minorities from remote highlands to lowland areas …

In Between Empires Greg Fisher tackles the problem of pre-Islamic Arab identity by
examining the relationship between the Roman Empire and the Empire of Sasanian Iran …

Inuit hunters of the Igloolik region orient themselves on the land by understanding wind
behaviour, snowdrift patterns, animal behaviour, tidal cycles, currents, and astronomical …

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 …