Search Results - "pastoralism"
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Pastoralists : equality, hierarchy, and the state
Published: Westview Press, 2004Contents: “…Introduction : pastoralism and pastoral societies -- Agency and adaptation : pastoralists of Iran -- Equality and anarchy : segmentary tribes -- Hierarchical image and reality : tribal chiefdoms -- Accommodation and resistance to the state : peasant pastoralists -- What can we learn from pastoral peoples about equality, freedom and democracy? …”Description: x, 193 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
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Prehistoric steppe adaptation and the horse
Published: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, 2003Contents: “…/ Ute Luise Dietz -- Origins of pastoralism in the Eurasian steppes / Elena E. Kuzmina -- The horse and the wheel: the dialects of change in the circum-Pontic region and adjacent areas, 4500-1500 BC / Andrew Sherratt -- The importance of fish in the diet of central Eurasian peoples from the Mesolithic to the early Iron Age / Tamsin O'Connell, Marsha Levine & Robert Hedges -- Correlations between agriculture and pastoralism in the northern Pontic steppe area during the Bronze Age / Kateryna P. …”Description: xii, 428 pages : illustrations, maps ; 30 cm.
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Cattle and kinship among the Gogo; a semi-pastoral society of Central Tanzania [1st ed.]
Published: Cornell University Press, 1969Description: xvi, 355 pages : illustrations, maps. ; 24 cm.Book -
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Introduction to cultural ecology
Published: AltaMira Press, 2004Contents: Table of contents -Description: xiii, 384 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
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The omnivore's dilemma : a natural history of four meals
Published: Penguin Books, 2007Contents: Get full textDescription: 450 pages ; 22 cm.
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Detachment from place : beyond an archaeology of settlement abandonment
Published: University Press of Colorado, 2020Contents: “…Detachment as a cultural response to climate fluctuations in Early Bronze Age northern Mesopotamia : the enabling role of pastoralism /…”Description: xii, 268 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
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Landscape and memory 1st ed.
Published: A.A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1995Contents: Table of contentsDescription: xi, 652 pages, 37 unnumbered pages of plates (some folded) : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 25 cm.
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60 feet, 6 inches and other distances from home : the (baseball) life of Mose YellowHorse
Published: Holy Cow! Press, 2002Contents:Description: x, 167 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.Book -
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Cooperstown to Dyersville : a geography of baseball nostalgia
Published: Westview Press, 1996Description: xiv, 217 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.Book -
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Development among Africa's migratory pastoralists
Published: Bergin & Garvey, 1996Contents: “…1. Pastoralism in Africa -- 2. Climate, Land Use and Migrations -- 3. …”Description: xiii, 284 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
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Alaska's place in the West : from the last frontier to the last great wilderness
Published: University Press of Kansas, 2010Contents: “…Introduction : A place for Alaska -- A new game in the north : Alaska native reindeer herding -- Alaskan pastoral : the Matanuska Colony -- The road to nowhere : the Alaska Highway as a northern development project -- Alaska submerged : the Rampart Dam controversy -- A crack in the landscape : the trans-Alaska pipeline -- Epilogue : Alaska heats up.…”Description: xi, 186 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
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The Middle East : an anthropological approach
Published: Prentice-Hall, 1981Contents: “…Anthropology and the Middle East -- Intellectual Predecessors: The Rediscovery of the Middle East -- The Functionalist Era: Village and Community Studies -- The Contexts of Pastoral Nomadism -- What is a Tribe? -- Personal and Family Relationships -- Change in Practical Ideologies: Self, Sexuality, and Ethnicity -- The Cultural Order of Complex Societies -- Islam in Practice -- Cities in Their Place -- Political Economy: Past and Present.…”Description: xiv, 336 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
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American environmentalism; the formative period, 1860-1915
Published: Wiley, 1973Contents: “…Man and nature in an age of science: Marsh, G. P. The pastoral vision refuted. Burroughs, J. The ambiguous impact of science.…”Description: vi, 234 pages ; 22 cm.
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The quest for environmental justice : human rights and the politics of pollution 1st ed.
Published: Sierra Club Books, 2005Contents: “…Bullard and Damu Smith -- Living and dying in Louisiana's "cancer alley" / Beverly Wright -- Environmental inequity in metropolitan Los Angeles / Manuel Pastor, James L. Sadd and Rachel Morello-Frosch -- Toxic racism on a New Jersey waterfront / Olga Pomar -- Anatomy of the urban parks movement: equal justice, democracy, and livability in Los Angeles / Robert García and Erica S. …”Description: xx, 393 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
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The Basques
Published: Center for Basque Studies, University of Nevada, Reno, 2009Contents: “…Types of town typical of the Basque country: structure of the settlements of the Basque-speaking region and of the central and southern areas of Araba and Navarre -- Roots of the present types of town: ancient times -- Roots of the present types of town: the Middle Ages in Araba and Navarre -- Roots of the present types of town: the Middle Ages in Bizkaia, Gipuzkoa, and the French Basque country -- The development of the Basque town in the modern age -- Internal analysis of Basque towns: types of houses and types of settlement -- Internal analysis of Basque towns: names and function of houses -- The agricultural sector: types of crops -- The agricultural sector: implements and ergology -- The agricultural sector: draft animals and special crops -- The pastoral sector: types of shepherding typical of the Basque country. …”Description: xix, 483 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
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Cuentos : tales from the Hispanic Southwest : based on stories originally collected by Juan B. Rael 1st ed.
Published: Museum of New Mexico Press, 1980Contents: “…Anaya -- La comadre Sebastiana = Dona Sebastiana -- Los cuatro elementos = The Four Elements -- El hombre, el burro y el perro = Man, the Burro, and the Dog -- Chicoria = Chicoria -- La suerte = The Force of Luck -- El Santo Nino = The Holy Child -- La yegua prieta = The Black Mare -- El pastor que sabia los idiomas de los animales = The Man Who Knew the Language of the Animals -- El muchacho de burrito = The Boy and His Donkey -- El camello que se perdio = The Lost Camel -- Los tres consejos = Words of Wisdom -- El obispo = The New Bishop -- Los tres hermanos = The Three Brothers -- El perico que compro lena = The Parrot Who Bought Firewood -- El muchacho y el abuelito = The Boy and His Grandfather -- El indito de las cien vacas = The Indian and the Hundred Cows -- San Sebastian = Saint Sebastian -- El que se llevo el venado = The Deer Thief -- Fabiano y Reyes = Fabiano and Reyes -- El baile de los tecolotes = The Dance of the Owls -- Los dos carreteros = The Two Wagoners -- La mujer cabezuda = The Headstrog Woman -- Pedro de Ordimalas = Pedro de Ordimalas -- Glossary: Regional Archaic and Idiomatic Words.…”Description: x, 174 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
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Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and the American Culture (1989) 1st ed.
Published: Meckler in association with the State University of New York College at Oneonta, 1991Contents: “…Gadwood -- Farmers, orphans, and cultists : pastoral characters and themes in baseball fiction / Richard Gaughran -- From dreams to diamonds to dictionaries : baseball as acculturating force / Linda A. …”Description: ix, 363 pages : maps ; 24 cm.
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