The End of Nomadism?: Society, State, and the Environment in Inner Asia

by David Andrews Sneath and Caroline Humphrey

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Those who herd in the vast grassland region of Inner Asia face a precarious situation as they struggle to respond to the momentous political and economic changes of recent years. In The End of Nomadism? Caroline Humphrey and David Sneath confront the romantic, ahistorical myth of the wandering nomad by revealing the complex lives and the significant impact on Asian culture of these modern "mobile pastoralists." In their examination of the present...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0822321076

ISBN13:9780822321071

Release Date:February 1999

Publisher:Duke University Press

Length:368 Pages

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