The Nomadic alternative : modes and models of interaction in the African-Asian deserts and steppes

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OCLC:559233287
Other Authors: Weissleder, Wolfgang, 1920-
Language:English
Published: The Hague (Noordeinde 41) : Mouton, 1978.
Series:World anthropology.
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Table of Contents:
  • The culture areas of the Middle East / Raphael Patai
  • The ecology and politics of nomadic pastoralists in the Middle East / Emanuel Marx
  • The environmental adaptation of nomads in the West African Sahel : a key to understanding prehistoric pastoralists / Susan E. Smith
  • Ecology and social organization among Nigerian Fulḅe (Fulani) / Charles Frantz
  • Characteristic features of nomadic communities in the Eurasian steppes / A.M. Khazanov
  • The problem of origin and formation of the economic-cultural type of pastoral nomads in the moderate belt of Eurasia / S.I. Vajnshtejn
  • Ethnic communities with survivals of clan and tribal structure in Central Asia and Kazakhstan in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries / T.A. Zhdanko
  • Early elements in the ethnogenesis of the Uzbeks / K. Shanijazov
  • Historical stratification of generic and tribal names and their role in the ethnogenetic study of Turkic peoples of Eastern Europe, Kazakhstan, and Central Asia / R.G. Kuzeev
  • Some basic problems of the ethnogenesis of the Turkmen / S.G. Agadzhanov and A. Karryev
  • Family-group, family, and individual property categories among nomads / S.M. Abramzon
  • The formation of national cadres of industrial workers in cattle-breeding districts of the Soviet Eastern Republics : the Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic / Sh. Annaklychev
  • The history of sovereignty among the Kel Ahaggar / Marceau Gast
  • The traditional power of the Mósì Nānámtsè of Upper Volta / Jean Bigtarma Zoanga
  • Conservatism and change in a desert feudalism : the case of southern Baluchistan / Stephen Pastner
  • Kinship terminology and feudal versus tribal orientations in Baluch social organization : a comparative view / Carroll McC. Pastner
  • The promotion of suzerainty between sedentary and nomadic populations in eastern Ethiopia / Wolfgang Weissleder
  • Biased symbiosis on the Tana River / Norman Townsend
  • Changes in the family structure of the Pamir nationalities in the years of socialist construction / L.F. Monogarova
  • Problems of social change among the Asiatic nomads / G.E. Markov
  • The segmental system : native model or anthropological construction? Discussion of an Iranian example / Jean-Pierre Digard
  • The Gnawa of Morocco : the derdeba ceremony / Viviana Paques
  • Marriage and marriage rites among the Kazakhs in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries / Kh. Argynbaev
  • Interaction of cultures among peoples of the U.S.S.R. / Yu. V. Arutyunyan
  • Ethnic traditions in agriculture in the Northern Caucasus / B.A. Kaloev
  • Settlement and traditional social institutions of the formerly nomadic Kazakh people / G.F. Dakhshleiger
  • Patronymy among the peoples of the Caucasus / A.I. Robakidze
  • Tradition and innovation in family rites in the Northern Caucasus / Ya. S. Smirnova
  • Cultural diversity, conflicting ideologies, and transformational processes in Afghanistan / M. Jamil Hanifi
  • The Mimouna festival among the Moroccan Jews / Issachar Ben-Ami.