Probing the manner in which Kazakhs attained noble status Russian empire, this article explores a neglected aspect of country's social history. Recognizing that nobility is typically associated with landowning feudal order, we explore how also found application steppe. Based on diverse sources and comparison other ethnic elites, regard Kazakh ennoblement not only as way recognizing traditional ...

Pastoral nomadic regional confederations, states, and empires have assumed a prominent place in the histories of Eurasian steppe zone; however, anthropological theory devoted to understanding these political systems is still debated relatively inchoate. A major question concerns techniques integration that might brought together dispersed mobile herders under aegis complex, large-scale polities...

– The archaeological structures buried underground are displayed by utilizing GPR. Geomorphological units determined via SVF and RRIM in the GIS environment. effects of dry farming, site-tethered pastoralism is discussed using an ABM.

An ethnobotanical survey of wild edible plants of Cyprus was carried out in two sites, Paphos vine zone and Larnaca mixed farming zone. These are among the areas in Cyprus whose inhabitants subsisted primarily on pastoralism and agriculture and therefore still preserve the traditional knowledge on wild edible plants. The information was collected for three-year period, in the framework of the E...

This paper presents the development of Sámi reindeer domestication and pastoralism in northwestern Sápmi, homeland indigenous people, based on recent surveys Gilbbesjávri region, Finland. We have documented about 99 percent known sites study area present first radiocarbon dates from herding this part Finnish Sápmi. Since Sápmi is transnational, archaeological data adjoining countries are includ...

Community-based conservation (CBC) aims to benefit local people as well as to achieve conservation goals, but has been criticised for taking a simplistic view of "community" and failing to recognise differences in the preferences and motivations of community members. We explore this heterogeneity in the context of Kenya's conservancies, focussing on the livelihood preferences of men and women l...

Although there is little doubt that the domestication of mammals was instrumental for the modernization of human societies, even basic features of the path towards domestication remain largely unresolved for many species. Reindeer are considered to be in the early phase of domestication with wild and domestic herds still coexisting widely across Eurasia. This provides a unique model system for ...

Book details Andrea E. Duffy, Nomad’s Land: Pastoralism and French Environmental Policy in the Nineteenth-Century Mediterranean World (Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2019). 191 pages + notes, index bibliography ISBN: 9780803290976