Mobile Pastoralists: Development Planning and Social Change in Oman

by Dawn Chatty

Book Overview

Based on more than ten years of study among the Harasiis, a Middle Eastern tribe living in the Sultanate of Oman, Mobile Pastoralists is a powerful statement on the importance of grassroots, people-based development and on the inadequacy of conventional responses for such a community by the international aid bureaucracy.

Dawn Chatty's work is the product of years of research among the Harasiis, during which she headed an international...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231105495
• ISBN13: 9780231105491
• Release Date: June 1996
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 230 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 8.9"