Herders, Warriors, and Traders: Pastoralism in Africa

Abstract

How beasts lost their legs - cattle in Tswana economy and society, Jean Comaroff to increase cows, God created the king - the function of cattle in interlacustrine societies, P. Bonte drought and differential ability to bear risk - the Tuareg pastoral economy of Central Niger, Martha A. Starr political ecology in the Upper Nile - the 20th-century expansion of the pastoral "common economy", Douglas H. Johnson herders, traders and clerics - trade, religion and warfare in the social organization of the Moors in the 17th and 18th centuries, Abdel Wedoud Ould Cheikh feasts, famines and friends - 19th-century exchange and ethnicity in the Eastern Lake Turkana region, Neal Sobania movement, warfare, and ethnicity in the Lower Omo Valley, David Turton society, ecology and segmentation in the Masai expansion, J. G. Galaty Fulani expansion and change from the Sokoto Jihad, Angelo Maliki Bonfiglioli herders, hunters and Smiths - the role of mobile populations in the history of Kanem, Edouard Conte pastro-foragers to "Bushmen" - transformations in property, production and labour relations in the Kalahari, Edwin Wilmsen postscript - the current realities of African pastoralists, J. G. Galaty and P. Bonte.