Changing Nomads in a Changing World

Joseph Ginat, formerly Chairman of the Jewish-Arab Center at the University of Haifa, and a former Director of the Israeli Academic Center in Cairo, is currently working with the Egyptian scholar Maha El-Rashidi on methods of conflict resolution. Anatoly M. Khazanov is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. A Fellow of the British Academy, an Honorary Member of the Jenghiz-Khan Society in Mongolia, and a 19934 Guggenheim Fellow, he is author of Nomads and the Outside World.

The contributors discuss how pastoralists deal with and are themselves transformed by the unprecedented changes taking place in the societies they inhabit. Also included is a tribute by Khazanov to the anthropologist Ernest Gellner. Choice

• Pastoralists in the contemporary world - the problem of survival, Anatoly M. Khazanov; who are these nomads? what do they do? - continuous change or changing continuities, William Lancaster and Fidelity Lancaster; being Bedouin - nomads and tribes in the Arab social imagination, Dale E. Eickleman; coping with change in Arabia - the Bedouin community and the idea of development, Ugo Fabietti; continuing education and community development for Bedouin, Helmut Danner and Maha el-Rashidi; the Joz Musarrib - an unusual form of marriage among the Arabs, Frank Stewart II; the segmentary lineage system - a reappraisal, Sharon Baruj; the cactus was our kin - pastoralism in the Spiny Desert of Southern Madagascar, Jeffrey C. Kaufmann; changes among the Bedouin in Israel, Joseph Ginat; understanding reindeer pastoralism in modern Siberia - ecological continuity versus state engineering, Igor I. Krupnik. (Part contents)