Lifestyle and Livelihood Changes Among Formerly Nomadic Peoples, Kartoniert / Broschiert
Lifestyle and Livelihood Changes Among Formerly Nomadic Peoples
- Entrepreneurship, Diversity and Urbanisation
- Publisher:
- A. Allan Degen, Léo-Paul Dana
- Publisher:
- Springer, 03/2025
- Binding:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Language:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9783031511448
- Item number:
- 12301040
- Volume:
- 364 Pages
- Weight:
- 552 g
- Format:
- 235 x 155 mm
- Thickness:
- 20 mm
- Release date:
- 1.3.2025
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Caution: Product is not in German language
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Part I: Africa.- 1. Declining grazing lands and climate change are forcing Maasai to diversify their livelihoods: Antecedents of Maasai entrepreneurial motivations and socioeconomic change.- 2. Herders who fish: Findings from pastoral and agropastoral communities in Kenya and South Sudan.- 3. Did Boru, Moshe Schwartz, Shaher El-Meccawi and Michael Kam: Borana cattle pastoralists in southern Ethiopia are diversifying their livelihoods by cultivating land and raising camels.- Part II: Middle East.- 4. From nomads to agro-pastoralists to urbanites.- 5. The nomad entrepreneurs of Iran: The history, major nomads, entrepreneurial activities, and challenges.- Part III: South Asia - Afghanistan, Nepal, India, Bangladesh.- 6. Land as a golden tent-peg: Settlement and change among nomads in northern Afghanistan.- 7. Challenges to transhumant pastoralism due to socio-economic and ecological changes in Nepal's high mountains.- 8. Mobility to Sedentarisation: Pastoralism from colonial to post-colonial period in Uttarakhand Himalaya (India).- 9. The Bede community- A nomadic group in Bangladesh.- Part IV: East Asia - China and Mongolia.- 10. Centralisation of livestock and grassland management through cooperatives in Tibetan pastoral areas of Qinghai, People's Republic of China.- 11. Transformation from nomadic to sedentary livestock production in Inner Mongolia.- 12. Mongolia's pastoral nomadism in transition: Putting case studies on socioecological feedbacks and socioeconomic forcing into a conceptual framework.- Part V: Arctic Region.- 13. Mechanisms for the positive transformation of the Arctic indigenous peoples from traditional nomadic reindeer herders to a more settled lifestyle.- 14. Snowmobile revolution and sedentarization of reindeer-herding nomads in the Kola Peninsula and Bolshezemelskaya tundra, northern European Russia.- 15. The Inuit - from igloos and tents and nomadic subsistence hunting and fishing to permanent settlements and heated homes.