Michael (Hrsg.) Bollig

Pastoralism in Africa: Past, Present and Future

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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 histori… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Schnegg, Michael (Hrsg.) / Wotzka, Hans-Peter (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-0-85745-908-4
EAN: 9780857459084
Produktnummer: 14902521
Verlag: Berghahn Books Inc
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
Seitenangabe: 544 S.
Masse: H23.5 cm x B15.7 cm x D3.3 cm 931 g
Auflage: New
Gewicht: 931

Über den Autor

Michael Schnegg is Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Hamburg, Germany. His research aims to understand how people in Sub-Saharan Africa value, use, and govern ecosystem services in an increasingly deterritorialized world.