Nomaden

Tibetan Pastoralists and Development

Negotiating the Future of Grassland Livelihoods

17 x 24 cm, 240 p., hardback
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The unique pastoralist economy, society, and culture on the Tibetan plateau has experienced profound changes during the 20th century: An ever closer integration into the Chinese state, a wide array of policies directed at ‘development’, modernization, and urbanization, and dramatic …

Die syrische Steppe

Mobile Viehzucht, internationale Entwicklungshilfe und globale Märkte

17 x 24 cm, 208 p., hardback
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Construction, Intervention and Lifelihood: Syrian Bedouin and the 'Development' of the Steppe by Government and International Organisations The study bases on the ethnological fieldwork undertaken with a Bedouin group (Haswa/ Bani Khaled) in the Syrian Steppe 2005-2007.

The focus lies …

Herausgegeben von Ute Pietruschka und Michael P. Streck in Verbindung mit Beate Eschment

Symbolische Repräsentation und Wirklichkeit nomadischen Lebens
17 x 24 cm, 216 p., hardback
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This essay collection brings together contributions from two research colloquia of the Collaborative Research Center “Difference and Integration. The interaction between nomadic and settled forms of life in the civilizations of the Old World”, based at the Martin Luther University …

Pastoral Morocco

Globalizing Scapes of Mobility and Insecurity

17 x 24 cm, 268 p., 17 maps, hardback
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Pastoral Morocco explores the mobility of people and livestock in the context of neo-liberal globalization. Mobility is defined as a strategy to maintain and enhance access to resources, and hence comprehended as a strategy of pastoralists to cope with insecurity …

Der imaginierte Nomade

Formel und Realitätsbezug bei antiken, mittelalterlichen und arabischen Autoren

17 x 24 cm, 196 p., hardback
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When a pre-modern author writes about nomads, his writing is immediately suspected of being soaked with literary formulae. This suspicion, which is no doubt justified, is for the historian linked to the question: what kind of reality can be seen …

Vom Beutezug zur Territorialherrschaft

Das lange Jahrhundert des Aufstiegs von Nomaden zur Vormacht in Syrien und Mesopotamien 286 bis 420 / 889 bis 1029. Beduinische Gruppen in mittelislamischer Zeit I

Teil 1
17 x 24 cm, 292 p., hardback
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Bedouins made history founding small states in the midst of cultural areas—these peculiar incidents of the 10th century, unique to the Islamic Middle Age, have prompted the assumption that the Fertile Crescent was ‘bedouinized’. Kurt Franz presents a critical overview …

Editor: Horst Kopp

Länderkunde Jemen
17 x 24 cm, 232 p., mit einer Landkarte, hardback
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Im Süden der Arabischen Halbinsel gelegen rückt der Jemen zunehmend in den Fokus der Öffentlichkeit und gewinnt als Reiseland immer weiter an Bedeutung.
Dieser erste Band der Reihe „Länderkunde“ liefert Hintergrundwissen zu einem Land, das sich dem Reisenden nicht leicht erschließt. …