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Presents a definitive study of the ways of life of the cattle-herding peoples of East Africa, drawing on many years of research.
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Introduction; PART I: THE PASTORAL COMMITMENT AND THE LOGIC OF TRADITION; 1. Pastoralists and the Spirit of Enterprise; 2. Polygyny and the Manifestations of Inequality; 3. The Dynamics of Age Systems in East Africa; PART II: THE HISTORICAL CONTINUUM AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF PASTORALIST IDEALS; 4. The Chamus Tradition of Pre-Pastoral Origins; 5. The Thrust of Pastoral Innovations in Chamus; 6. The Emergence of Individualism and New Forms of Inequality; PART III: PASTORALISM AND THE THRUST OF CHANGE; 7. Population Growth, Development, and the Malthusian Dilemma; 8. Pastoralists and the Threshold of Change; 9. The Extension of the Continuum and the Spread of the Desert; REFERENCES. INDEX
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