Probing the manner in which Kazakhs attained noble status Russian empire, this article explores a neglected aspect of country's social history. Recognizing that nobility is typically associated with landowning feudal order, we explore how also found application steppe. Based on diverse sources and comparison other ethnic elites, regard Kazakh ennoblement not only as way recognizing traditional ...

Pastoral nomadic regional confederations, states, and empires have assumed a prominent place in the histories of Eurasian steppe zone; however, anthropological theory devoted to understanding these political systems is still debated relatively inchoate. A major question concerns techniques integration that might brought together dispersed mobile herders under aegis complex, large-scale polities...

– The archaeological structures buried underground are displayed by utilizing GPR. Geomorphological units determined via SVF and RRIM in the GIS environment. effects of dry farming, site-tethered pastoralism is discussed using an ABM.

Book details Andrea E. Duffy, Nomad’s Land: Pastoralism and French Environmental Policy in the Nineteenth-Century Mediterranean World (Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2019). 191 pages + notes, index bibliography ISBN: 9780803290976

Pastoral systems worldwide secure rural livelihoods in the harshest environments on Earth. Their low productivity per area unit or head makes them subject of much criticism with regard to their environmental impact, particularly relation global warming, desertification and land degradation. Such is case traditional pastoral Patagonia, a vast isolated region where sedentary mobile pastoralism co...

The goal of this paper is to explain why and how increasing commoditization incorporation in the market economy are only now leading a critical transition from pastoralism ranching Central Africa. While there similarities between capitalism—in both systems, entrepreneurs strategically maximizing their “stock”—there also differences. We argue that these differences can be understood as two disti...

With the recent Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, held in Nairobi (November 2006), significant international attention has been drawn to the issue of climate change. It is widely recognised that developing countries stand to suffer disproportionately from the effects of climate change, they are in the weakest position to mitigate the adverse...