Pastoralists Under Pressure?
Title | Pastoralists Under Pressure? PDF eBook |
Author | Victor Azarya |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 484 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9789004113640 |
This collection of papers on the Fulbe is an up-to-date and comprehensive overview of social change in one of the most fascinating group of pastoralists in Africa. Opens new perspectives on this group.
Pastoralists under Pressure?
Title | Pastoralists under Pressure? PDF eBook |
Author | Victor Azarya |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 472 |
Release | 2021-10-11 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9004491708 |
This book brings together the work of a number of leading specialists of the Fulbe (Fulani, Peul), the largest and most widespread group of pastoralists in West Africa. The collection deals with a wide variety of subjects, ranging from ethnicity and identity, ecology and politics, and social transformation and takes us to such diverse settings across the African continent as urban Nigeria, dryland West and Central Mali, the Aadamaawa plateau in Cameroon, the Guinean highlands, the Ivorian savannah, the Central Sudan, Northern Benin and the Senegal valley. This volume shows that the Fulbe are a fascinating example for the comparative study of social change, and ecological and cultural adaptation by discussing contemporary changes in Fulbe society and the amazing variety of settings in which they are able to survive.
Introduction
Title | Introduction PDF eBook |
Author | Victor Azarya |
Publisher | |
Pages | 25 |
Release | 1999 |
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Special Issue: Pastoralists Under Pressure in Present-day Sudan
Title | Special Issue: Pastoralists Under Pressure in Present-day Sudan PDF eBook |
Author | ʻAbd al-Ġaffār Muḥammad Aḥmad |
Publisher | |
Pages | 180 |
Release | 2009 |
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Pastoralism Under Pressure
Title | Pastoralism Under Pressure PDF eBook |
Author | Ayalew Gebre |
Publisher | |
Pages | 415 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Herders |
ISBN | 9789042301689 |
Pastoralists Under Pressure in Present-day Sudan
Title | Pastoralists Under Pressure in Present-day Sudan PDF eBook |
Author | Barbara Casciarri |
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Pages | 180 |
Release | 2009 |
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Pokot Pastoralism
Title | Pokot Pastoralism PDF eBook |
Author | Hauke-Peter Vehrs |
Publisher | James Currey |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2024-05-21 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781847013767 |
Examines how pastoral peoples imagine, or even design, their futures under the pressure of changing environments and large-scale government projects. In East Africa and beyond, pastoral groups find themselves and their livelihoods under increasing threat when dealing with rapid environmental change. On the one hand, they contemplate major upheaval as a result of landscape and climate change on a scale never seen before. At the same time, these often-marginalised groups find themselves subsumed by the wider interests of national political economies prioritising new investment in land as well as encouraging tourism. This book investigates one such group - the nomadic pastoralists in East Pokot in north-west Kenya - and traces their social and ecological transformation over the past two hundred years to show how modern challenges are linked to the past history and also shape the perceptions of pastoral futures. In East Pokot the grass bush savannah upon which the pastoral lifestyle depends has strongly declined over a long period of time, with encroachment of acacia. Though traditionally cattle-rearing, its people have been forced to diversify into raising other browsing animals as well as cattle husbandry. The development efforts of the Kenyan government to use natural resources have also threatened their environment and their way of life. Bringing a long view to the history of human-environmental relations, the author reveals a more complex picture of change that, contrary to earlier assumptions, is not due exclusively to the pastoralists' pasture management, but also to the extinction of wildlife populations in the region, which were hunted heavily in colonial times. Attempts to move beyond Pokot territory, to the regions west of Lake Baringo and to the hard-fought Laikipia Plateau, have often been compromised by violent conflicts. While a younger generation looks to develop new sources of income through the job opportunities created by geothermal energy production, and diversify into other agricultural activities, this has also brought a dynamic social transformation: increasing production and sale of alcohol, decreasingly nomadic lifestyle, growing differences between the older and younger generations, and so on. Contributing to debates on future rural Africa, ecological history and environmental change, the book will appeal to anthropologists, sociologists, geographers, historians and development scholars. Published in association with the Collaborative Research Centre FUTURE RURAL AFRICA, funded by the German Research Council (DFG).