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Nomads and the outside world

This book was copied from the amazing and wonderful PAHAR: Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset, a labor of love by two dedicated and talented historians. We encourage you to visit them, and subscribe to their list for updates on new books as they are uploaded. · lix, 382 pages ; 23 cm · "This is the first paperback edition of Anatoly M. Khazanov's famous comparative study of pastoral nomadism. Hailed by reviewers as "majestic and magisterial," Nomads and the Outside World was first published in English in 1984. With the author's new introduction and updated bibliography, this classic is now available in an edition accessible to students."--Jacket · Originally published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1984. With new introd. and bibliography · Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-371) and index · Foreword / Ernest Gellner -- Introduction: The phenomenon of nomadism: myths and problems -- 1. Nomadism as a distinct form of food-producing economy -- 2. The origins of pastoral nomadism -- 3. The social preconditions of the relations between nomads and the outside world -- 4. Modes of nomadic adaptation to the outside world -- 5. Nomads and the state --

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