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Rethinking Pastoralism in Africa: Gender, Culture and the Myth of the Patriarchal Pastoralist »

Authors: Dorothy Louise Hodgson
ISBN-13: 9780821413692, ISBN-10: 0821413694
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Date Published: January 2001
Edition: (Non-applicable)

	List of Maps, Figures & Photos
	Acknowledgements
	List of Contributors
	Map
	Gender, Culture & the Myth of the Patriarchal Pastoralist	1
1	Gender & Material Culture in West Pokot, Kenya	29
2	Gender, Ethnicity & Social Aesthetics in Maasai & Okiek Beadwork	43
3	Women & Men of the Khoekhoen of Southern Africa	72
4	Pastoralism, Patriarchy & History among Maasai in Tanganyika 1890-1940	97
5	Women's Roles in Peacemaking in Somali Society	121
6	Gender, Ethnographic Myths & Community-Based Conservation in a Former Namibian 'Homeland'	142
7	The Fertility of Houses & Herds: Producing Kinship & Gender among Turkana Pastoralists	165
8	Exalted Mothers: Gender, Aging & Post-childbearing Experience in a Tuareg Community	186
9	Milk Selling among Fulani Women in Northern Burkina Faso	207
10	Development Ideologies & Local Knowledge among Samburu Women in Northern Kenya	227
11	Pastoral Disruption & Cultural Continuity in a Pastoral Town	249
	Index	265