Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Figures ix
4. Tables xi
5. Preface xiii
6. 1 Introduction Pastoralism as an Adaptive Strategy 1
7. 2 The Study of Nomads in the Republic of Kazakhstan 17
8. 3 The Ecology of Inner Asian Pastoral Nomadism 41
9. 4 Agropastoralism and Transhumance in Hunza 71
10. 5 Animals, Identity, and Mortuary Behavior in Late Bronze Age–Early Iron Age Mongolia A Reassessment of Faunal Remains in Mortuary Monuments of Nomadic Pastoralists 97
11. 6 Kalas and Kurgans Some Considerations on Late Iron Age Pastoralism within the Central Asian Oasis of Chorasmia 117
12. 7 FulBe Pastoralists and the Neo-Patrimonial State in the Chad Basin 171
13. 8 Flexibility in Navajo Pastoral Land Use A Historical Perspective 195
14. 9 Accidental Dairy Farmers Social Transformations in a Rural Irish Parish 211
15. 10 Real Milk from Mechanical Cows Adaptations among Irish Dairy Cattle Farmers 225
16. 11 Island Pastoralism, Isolation, and Connection An Ethnoarchaeological Study of Herding on Dokos, Greece 243
17. 12 The Ecology of Herding Conclusions, Questions, Speculations 267
18. About the Contributors 281
19. Index 285