ISBN:
9780387275819
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (458 p)
Series Statement:
Studies in Human Ecology and Adaptation v.2
Parallel Title:
Print version Risk Management in a Hazardous Environment : A Comparative Study of two Pastoral Societies
DDC:
304.2096
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
A research focus on hazards, risk perception and risk minimizing strategies is relatively new in the social and environmental sciences. This volume by a prominent scholar of East African societies is a powerful example of this growing interest. Earlier theory and research tended to describe social and economic systems in some form of equilibrium. However recent thinking in human ecology, evolutionary biology, not to mention in economic and political theory has come to assign to ""risk"" a prominent role in predictive modeling of behavior. It turns out that risk minimalization is central to the
Description / Table of Contents:
Title Page; Copyright Page; Studies in Human Ecology and Adaptation; Preface; Table of Contents; List of Tables; List of Figures; List of Maps; List of Photographs; Chapter 1 Studying Hazard and Risk in Pastoral Societies; 1.1. DISCARDED BOREHOLES AND PROTECTED PASTURES: THE WAY TO THE SUBJECT OF THE STUDY; 1.2. RESEARCH ON RISK MANAGEMENT IN ANTHROPOLOGY AND THE SOCIAL SCIENCES: AN OVERVIEW; 1.2.1. Actor-Oriented Approaches to the Study of Risk; 1.2.2. Ethnographic Approaches; 1.2.3. Interpretative Approacbes; 1.3. THEORETICAL SCOPE OF THIS STUDY
Description / Table of Contents:
1.4. KEY CONCEPTS: HAZARD, RISK, AND UNCERTAINTY1.4.1. Hazards and Damage; 1.4.2. The Perception of Hazards; 1.4.3. Risk Minimisation; 1.5. ON CONDUCTING FIELDWORK IN TWO SOCIETIES; 1.6. COMPARATIVE RESEARCH; ENDNOTES; Chapter 2 An Outline of Pokotand Himba Societies: Environment, Political Economy and Cultural Beliefs; 2.1. THE PASTORAL POKOT; 2.1.1. The Ecology of the Northern Baringo Plains; 2.1.2. Pastoral Expansion and Colonial Domination: The Historical Developments of the Pastoral Pokot; Ethnogenesis and Pastoral Expansion; The Colonial Period; Post Independence
Description / Table of Contents:
2.1.3. The Famlly Herds: The Household Based Economy of the Pastoral PokotHousehold economy; Pastoral Production; Wealth Distribution; Spatial Mobility; Patterns of Consumption; 2.1.4. Descent and Age: Social Organisation amongst the Pastoral Pokot; 2.1.5. Councils, Ritual Experts and Chiefs: Political Organisation amongst the Pastoral Pokot; 2.1.6. Solidarity and Respect: The Belief System of the Pastoral Pokot; 2.2. THE HlMBA OF KAOKOLAND; 2.2.1. The Ecology of Northern Kaokoland
Description / Table of Contents:
2.2.2. From Early Integration into the World system to Colonial Encapsulation: The Historical Development of the Pastoral HimbaIntegration into the World System: Violent Conflicts and Trading Networks; Kaokoland under South African Rule; 2.2.3. Household Economy and Pastoral Production; Household Economy; Pastoral Production; Land tenure and spatial mobility; Patterns of Consumption; Agricultural Activities; Migratory Work; 2.2.4. Double-Descent and Patron-Client Networks: Social Organisation amongst the Pastoral Himba; The Matriclan; Patrilineal Groupings
Description / Table of Contents:
2.2.5. Chiefs and Councillors: Political Organisation amongst the Pastoral Himba2.2.6. Death, Commemoration and Ancestor Worship: The Himba belief system; 2.3. COMPARING HIMBA AND POKOT SOCIETIES; Environmental Variables; Historical Development of Economy and Social Organisation; Pastoral Production; Kinship, age and locality; The Quest for Power: Pokot Egalitarianism and Himba Patronage; Norms, Values and Ideas on Humanity and the Supernatural; ENDNOTES; Chapter 3 Hazards and Damages; 3.1. DEMOGRAPHIC GROWTH AND A NARROWING RESOURCE BASE
Description / Table of Contents:
3.1.1 Rapid Growth: Demographic Development of the Pokot
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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