Pastoralism has shaped livelihoods and landscapes on the African continent for millennia. Mobile livestock husbandry has generally been portrayed as an economic strategy that successfully met the challenges of low biomass productivity and environmental variability in arid and semi-arid environments. This volume focuses on the emergence, diversity, and inherent dynamics of pastoralism in Africa based on research during a twelve-year period on the southwest and northeast regions. Unraveling the complex prehistory, history, and contemporary political ecology of African pastoralism, results in insight into the ingenuity and flexibility of historical and contemporary herders.
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Pastoralism in Africa
Past, Present and Future
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Table of contents
- Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- List of Abbreviations
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I - The Prehistory of Pastoralism in Africa
- Chapter 1-Herders before Pastoralism
- Chapter 2-‘I Hope Your Cattle Are Well’
- Chapter 3-Trajectories of Pastoralism in Northern and Central Kenya
- Chapter 4-From the First Stock Keepers to Specialised Pastoralists in the West African Savannah
- Chapter 5-A Short History of Early Herding in Southern Africa
- Part II-Historical and Contemporary Dynamics of Pastoralism
- Chapter 6-Establishing a Precolonial ‘Modern’ Cattle-and-Gun Society
- Chapter 7-The Emergence of Commercial Ranching under State Control and the Encapsulation of Pastoralism in African Reserves
- Chapter 8-Land, Boreholes and Fences
- Chapter 9-The Political Ecology of Specialisationand Diversification
- Chapter 10-Social-ecological Change and Institutional Development in a Pastoral Community in North-western Namibia
- Chapter 11-Pastoral Belonging
- Part III-Violence, Trade, Conservation and Pastoralism in Africa
- Chapter 12-Pastoralism, Conflict and the State in Contemporary Eastern Chad
- Chapter 13-Unofficial Trade When States Are Weak
- Chapter 14-Pastoralism and Trans-Saharan Trade
- Chapter 15-Pastoralism and Nature Conservation in Southern Africa
- Part IV-Pastoral Modernities in Africa
- Chapter 16-The Indigenisation of Pastoral Modernity
- Notes on Contributors
- Index
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