Lifestyle and Livelihood Changes Among Formerly Nomadic Peoples Entrepreneurship, Diversity and Urbanisation
Contemporary policymakers, as their predecessors, continue to view nomadic people as a weak minority, and their way of life and raising livestock as a backward and inefficient paradigm. Wherever nomads are not the dominant group, the trend to settle them continues even today as in the past. This boo...
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| Language: | English |
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Springer Nature Switzerland
2024, 2024
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2024 |
| Series: | Ethnic and Indigenous Business Studies
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Table of Contents:
- 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
- 15. The Inuit – from igloos and tents and nomadic subsistence hunting and fishing to permanent settlements and heated homes
- 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