Changing Nomads in a Changing World - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1845191994 ISBN 13 : 9781845191993

Editeur : Liverpool University Press, 2014

Synopsis

This volume, which contains a chapter entitled "Great Scholar, Great Man, Great Friend (Remembering Ernest Gellner)", brings together leading anthropologists who discuss how pastoralists are coping and changing as the societies they inhabit change at an unprecedented pace. The different issues pertaining to the different geographic areas covered are united by a general theme: socio-economic and cultural changes in contemporary pastoralist societies and groups. These changes are far from being spontaneous. They result from the painful adaptation of the mobile and extensive pastoralists to the modern (some scholars would argue already post-modern) world, in which pastoralists occupy only a marginal and inferior economic and social position. This is true even with regard to Middle Eastern countries, although in some of them a social prestige connected with pastoralism is still quite high. Discussion focuses on the world-wide deterioration of the socio-political and economic standing of the pastoralist, the historical factors of colonisation/de-colonisation, and how modernising sedentary society (with its technological inventions, modern infrastructure, and national requirements of taxation and education) impacts on change in nomadic societies.

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À propos de l'auteur

Joseph Ginat was an Israeli author and anthropologist. He was the chairman of the Jewish-Arab Center at Haifa University, the director of the Israeli Academic Center in Cairo, and chairman of the Committee for Relations with Arab and Muslim Countries. He is the author and editor of numerous works on Arab affairs. Anatoly M. Khazanov is an anthropologist and a historian. He is the Ernst Gellner professor of anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the author of numerous books, including Nomads and the Outside World.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Liverpool University Press
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1845191994
• ISBN 13: 9781845191993
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 258
• Éditeur: Ginat Joseph
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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