Pastoralism in Africa

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<p> Pastoralism has shaped livelihoods and landscapes on the African continent for millennia. Mobile livestock husbandry has generally been portrayed as an economic strategy that successfully met the challenges of low biomass productivity and environmental variability in arid and semi-arid environments. This volume focuses on the emergence, diversity, and inherent dynamics of pastoralism in Africa based on research during a twelve-year period on the southwest and northeast regions. Unraveling the complex prehistory, history, and contemporary political ecology of African pastoralism, results in insight into the ingenuity and flexibility of historical and contemporary herders.</p>

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<p><strong>Hans-Peter Wotzka</strong>is Professor of Prehistoric Archaeology at the University of Cologne. His publications include<em>Aridity, Change and Conflict in Africa</em> (with Michael Bollig, Olaf Bubenzer and Ralf Vogelsang, Heinrich-Barth-Institut, 2007) and<em>Proceedings of the Third International Conference on the Archaeology of the Fourth Nile Cataract</em> (Heinrich-Barth-Institut, 2012).</p>

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