Pastoralists under pressure? : : fulbe societies confronting change in West Africa /

Pastoralists under pressure? : : fulbe societies confronting change in West Africa / / edited by Victor Azarya [and three others].

This book brings together the work of a number of leading specialists of the Fulbe (Fulani, Peul), the largest and most widespread group of pastoralists in West Africa. The collection deals with a wide variety of subjects, ranging from ethnicity and identity, ecology and politics, and social transfo...

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Superior document:Social, Economic and Political Studies of the Middle East and Asia ; Volume 65
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Azarya, Victor,
Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [1999]
©1999
Year of Publication:1999
Language:English
Series:Social, economic, and political studies of the Middle East and Asia ; Volume 65.
Physical Description:1 online resource.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Figures, maps and tables
  • Preface / Victor Azarya , Anneke Breedveld , Mirjam de Bruijn , and Han van Dijk
  • Chapter One Introduction: pastoralists under pressure? / Victor Azarya
  • Chapter Two Why are there so many pastoral groups in eastern Africa / Roger Blench
  • Chapter Three Socio-cultural, socio-economic and socio-linguistic diversity among the Fulɓe of the Sudan Republic / Al-Amin Abu-Manga
  • Chapter Four Prototypes and ethnic categorization on the terms Pullo and Fulɓe in Maasina (Mali) / Anneke Breedveld
  • Chapter Five Ethnic change and continuity among the Fulɓe of Aadamaawa Nigeria the view from the household / Catherine Vereecke
  • Chapter Six Les stratifications des structures politico-sociales de la société traditionelle au Fuuta Jaloo évolution et transformation / Thierno Diallo
  • Chapter Seven Fulbe livestock raising and environmental change in Northern Côte d'Ivoire / Thomas J. Bassett and Zuéli Koli Bi
  • Chapter Eight Nouvelles techniques d'élevage en savanes, nouvelles inegalités (Aadamaawa, Cameroon) / Jean Boutrais
  • Chapter Nine The end of the herding contract decreasing complementary linkages between Fulɓe pastoralists and Dendi agriculturalists in northern Benin / Antje van Driel
  • Chapter Ten Dimensions sociales et politiques de l'expansion pastorale en zone semi-humide ivoirienne / Youssouf Diallo
  • Chapter Eleven Ecological insecurity and Fulɓe pastoral society in the Niger Bend / Han van Dijk
  • Chapter Twelve Pastoralism under pressure? - understanding social change in Fulɓe society / Philip Burnham
  • Chapter Thirteen The pastoral poor: hazard, crisis and insecurity in Fulɓe society in Central Mali / Mirjam de Bruijn
  • Chapter Fourteen Mutations et crise d'identité au Fuuta Jaloo: la fin du pastoralisme? / Thierno Bah
  • Chapter Fifteen L'expulsion des Fulɓe de la rive mauritanienne du fleuve Sénégal en 1989: répétition dans l'histoire ou catastrophe / Jean Schmitz
  • Chapter Sixteen Fulbe communities in Kaarta (northwestern Mali) three hundred years of survival and transformation / John Hanson
  • Glossary
  • Index
  • References
  • List of contributors.

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