The Pastoral Continuum: The Marginalization of Tradition in East Africa

by Paul Spencer

Spencer presents the definitive study of the ways of life of the cattle-herding peoples of East Africa, drawing on many years of research. This region has offered a prime example of a traditional culture resisting the inevitability of change; it provides the best-known and most extensive instance both of cattle-pastoralist society and of social organization based primarily on age. The Pastoral Continuum examines the richness and resilience of the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198233752
• ISBN13: 9780198233756
• Release Date: April 1998
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"