Pastoralism in Africa: Past, Present and Future

Published by Berghahn Books 2013

Pastoralism in Africa

Past, Present and Future

Edited by: Michael Bollig , Michael Schnegg and Hans-Peter Wotzka

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780857459091

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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 historical and contemporary herders.

Author / Editor information

Michael Bollig is Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Cologne. His publications include Risk Management in a Hazardous Environment: A Comparative Study of Two Pastoral Societies (Springer, 2006); The Practice of War: Production, Reproduction and Communication of Armed Violence (with A. Rao and M. Böck, Berghahn Books, 2007); and African Landscapes: Interdisciplinary Approaches (with O. Bubenzer, Springer, 2009).

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.

Hans-Peter Wotzka is Professor of Prehistoric Archaeology at the University of Cologne. His publications include Aridity, Change and Conflict in Africa (with Michael Bollig, Olaf Bubenzer and Ralf Vogelsang, Heinrich-Barth-Institut, 2007) and Proceedings of the Third International Conference on the Archaeology of the Fourth Nile Cataract (Heinrich-Barth-Institut, 2012).

Michael Bollig is Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Cologne. His publications include Risk Management in a Hazardous Environment: A Comparative Study of Two Pastoral Societies (Springer, 2006); The Practice of War: Production, Reproduction and Communication of Armed Violence (with A. Rao and M. Böck, Berghahn Books, 2007); and African Landscapes: Interdisciplinary Approaches (with O. Bubenzer, Springer, 2009).

Reviews

“While the volume will be of interest primarily to African specialists, students of pastoralism also will find it instructive. End-of-chapter reference listings, a compact index, and 100 tables, maps, and photos support the papers.” · Choice

“The book is massive – 525 pages of text including notes and references – and covers pastoral systems across the continent, from the early Holocene in the Eastern Sahara to contemporary pastoralists in North-western Namibia. The breadth and depth of the archaeological and ethnohistorical case studies is impressive and clearly one of the strengths of the volume.” · Nomadic Peoples

“ [The volume’s] coverage is impressive in scope and it should serve as an important reference for those interested in the deep history of African pastoralism and the tremendous extent of its influence today. The volume makes a strong contribution to the archaeological, historical and ethnographic literatures on African pastoralism and coheres as a collection worth far more than the sum of its individual papers. The book is beautifully produced and is highly recommended for scholars of pastoralist systems in Africa, as well as for those elsewhere who might turn to the African case for deeper insight into the successes, failures and futures of pastoralist societies worldwide.” · Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
List of Figures and Tables Publicly Available Download PDF	viii
List of Abbreviations Publicly Available Download PDF	xiii
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	xvii
Introduction. Specialisation and Diversification among African Pastoral Societies Michael Bollig and Michael Schnegg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I: The Prehistory of Pastoralism in Africa
1 Herders before Pastoralism: Prehistoric Prelude in the Eastern Sahara Rudolph Kuper and Heiko Riemer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	31
2 ‘I Hope Your Cattle Are Well’: Archaeological Evidence for Early Cattle-centred Behaviour in the Eastern Sahara of Sudan and Chad Friederike Jesse, Birgit Keding, Tilman Lenssen-Erz and Nadja Pöllath Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	66
3 Trajectories of Pastoralism in Northern and Central Kenya: An Overview of the Archaeological and Environmental Evidence Paul Lane Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	104
4 From the First Stock Keepers to Specialised Pastoralists in the West African Savannah Veerle Linseele Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	145
5 A Short History of Early Herding in Southern Africa Karim Sadr Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	171
Part II: Historical and Contemporary Dynamics of Pastoralism
6 Establishing a Precolonial ‘Modern’ Cattle-and-Gun Society: (Re-)Pastoralisation, Mercantile Capitalism and Power amongst Herero in Nineteenth-century Central Namibia Dag Henrichsen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	201
7 The Emergence of Commercial Ranching under State Control and the Encapsulation of Pastoralism in African Reserves Christo Botha Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	230
8 Land, Boreholes and Fences: The Development of Commercial Livestock Farming in the Outjo District, Namibia Ute Dieckmann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	257
9 The Political Ecology of Specialisation and Diversification: Long-term Dynamics of Pastoralism in East Pokot District, Kenya Michael Bollig and Matthias Ö Österle Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	289
10 Social-ecological Change and Institutional Development in a Pastoral Community in North-western Namibia Michael Bollig Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	316
11 Pastoral Belonging: Causes and Consequences of Part-time Pastoralism in North-western Namibia Michael Schnegg, Julia Pauli and Clemens Greiner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	341
Part III: Violence, Trade, Conservation and Pastoralism in Africa
12 Pastoralism, Conflict and the State in Contemporary Eastern Chad: The Case of Zaghawa–Tama Relationships Babett Jánszky and Grit Jungstand Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	365
13 Unofficial Trade When States Are Weak: The Case of Cross-border Livestock Trade in the Horn of Africa Peter D. Little Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	389
14 Pastoralism and Trans-Saharan Trade: The Transformation of a Historical Trade Route between Eastern Chad and Libya Meike Meerpohl Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	412
15 Pastoralism and Nature Conservation in Southern Africa Susanne Berzborn and Martin Solich Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	440
Part IV: Pastoral Modernities in Africa
16 The Indigenisation of Pastoral Modernity: Territoriality, Mobility and Poverty in Dryland Africa John G. Galaty Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	473
Notes on Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	511
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	517

Language: English
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 544
Keywords: Anthropology (General); Environmental Studies (General)

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Published: July 1, 2013
ISBN: 9780857459091