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• Part 1 Introduction - poverty past and present: poverty and the pastoralist - deconstructing myths, reconstructing realities, Vigdis Broch-Due and David M. Anderson; pastoral poverty in historical perspective, Richard D. Wallet; remembered cattle, forgotten people - the morality of exchange and the exclusion of the Turkana poor, Vigdis Broch-Due. Part 2 Metaphors and meanings: power and poverty in southern Somalia, Bernhard Helander; pastoralists at the border - Maasai poverty and the development discourse in Tanzania, Aud Talle; why hyenas chase the lion -Iraqw and Datooga discourses on fortune, failure and the future, Ole Bjorn Rekdal and Astrid Blystad. Part 3 Coins and calories: health consequences of pastoral sedentarization among Rendille of northern Kenya, Elliot Fratkin et al; of markets, meat and milk -pastoral commoditization in Kenya, Fred Zaal and Ton Dietz; mutual assistance among the Ngorongoro Maasai, Tomasz Potkanski. Part 4 Development dialogues: images and interventions - the "problems" of "pastoralist" development, Dorothy L. Hodgson; rehabilitation, resettlement and restocking - ideology and practice in pastoralist development, David M. Anderson.