J G Galaty
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 68287 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | J G Galaty |
| NOMBRES | J G |
| APELLIDO | Galaty |
| FIRMA | GALATY J G |
| AFILIACIONES | McGill University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4150-8092 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 52 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 275 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 52 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1979 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 10 |
Charis Enns and Brock Bersaglio, with a Foreword and Afterword by Ramson Karmushu, Settler Ecologies
This article was published open access under a CC BY-NC 4.0 licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
Overview
This article was published open access under a CC BY-NC 4.0 licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
Antonio Allegretti, Policy and Practice in Rural Tanzania
Reflections on signs and sacrifice
Pastoralism in Africa
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 …
Dynamics of Identification and Conflict
Dealing with the dynamics of identification and conflict, this book uses theoretical orientations ranging from political ecology to rational choice theory, interpretive approaches, Marxism and multiscalar analysis. Case studies set in Africa, Europe and Central Asia are grouped in three sections devoted to pastoralism, identity and migration. What connects all of these anthropological explorations is a close focus on processes of identification a…
Lands of the Future
Rangeland, forests and riverine landscapes of pastoral communities in Eastern Africa are increasingly under threat. Abetted by states who think that outsiders can better use the lands than the people who have lived there for centuries, outside commercial interests have displaced indigenous dwellers from pastoral territories. This volume presents case studies from Eastern Africa, based on long-term field research, that vividly illustrate the strug…
Modern Mobility in East Africa
Resilience through Adaptation
This article examines strategies adopted by Maasai and other pastoralists in Kenya to adapt to climate change, population growth, land loss, decreasing livestock holdings and land degradation, aimed at achieving greater socio-economic resilience. Using case studies mostly from Narok County and reviewing the increasingly rich literature on pastoralism and conservation in East Africa, we show that pastoralists employ three main strategies to adapt …
Transhumance
Transhumance is a form of pastoralism that involves the cyclical movement of herders and their domestic animals between seasonal pastures, thus the term “trans” (across) “humus” (land). Transhumance is distinguished from nomadism, which implies continuous, short‐range movements, or seminomadism, which involves occasional and relatively unpredictable or opportunistic movements of herds and households as they seek fresh pastures
Gufu Oba, Herder Warfare in East Africa
Reasserting the commons
The theory that land holding is inexorably evolving from common to private or state tenure is challenged by facts on the ground that this paper will examine. ‘Tenure’ is interpreted both in terms of formal law and informal practices. While the association between privatization and land fragmentation is clear, property theory has influenced privatization so the process cannot be used to validate the evolutionary model of transitions from open acce…
Boundary-Making and Pastoral Conflict along the Kenyan-Ethiopian Borderlands
Boundaries are technologies of power and knowledge that shape spatial and social realities and our understandings of them. This article examines the effects of boundary-making between Kenya and Ethiopia, and investigates the effects of borders on states of peace and conflict among Turkana, Samburu, Borana, Gabra, and Dassanetch of northern Kenya. If borders divide people, people benefit nonetheless from the environmental, social, and political en…
Pastoralism in Anthropology
Unused' Land and Unfulfilled Promises
Recent studies of large-scale land acquisitions, colloquially known as 'land grabbing', have reviewed factors driving international land deals, conditions that make regions vulnerable to land loss and anticipated outcomes for current land holders. Diverse audiences are persuaded by justificatory narratives of the reasonableness of transfers of land rights. which explain away large-scale transfers of land from farmers to commercial enterprises in …
Obituary of Pierre Bonte (1942-2013) with a Select Bibliography of his Major Works
Institutional factors affecting wild edible plant (WEP) harvest and consumption in semi-arid Kenya
Pervasive food insecurity and poverty in much of the world drives vulnerable populations to harvest natural resources as a means of generating income and meeting other household needs. Wild edible plants (WEPs) are a particularly common and effective coping strategy used to increase socio-ecological resilience in Sub-Saharan Africa where agricultural systems are often sensitive to environmental perturbations and instability. WEPs are collected ac…
Animal spirits and mimetic affinities
Human identities are often conceived in counter-position to objects outside the individual or the collective self with which lines of affinity or opposition, or the blurring together of both, run. Selfhood itself is forged out of the experience of "alterity" through encounters with diverse "others" with whom we identify or differentiate ourselves. With reference to the experience of East African pastoralists, this paper examines the meshing of hu…
The Collapsing Platform for Pastoralism
Although promises of tenure security have been used to justify land privatization, land reform has rarely benefitted the pastoral inhabitants of the East African rangelands. Pastoralists lose land due to corruption and illicit allocations at the moment of enclosure and subdivision of rangelands, as well as through land sales after they have received land titles. This article examines how the process of pastoralist land sales following titling occ…
Official and Practical Norms in Theoretical Context
(2010). Official and Practical Norms in Theoretical Context: A Commentary on Olivier de Sardan. Canadian Journal of Development Studies / Revue canadienne d'études du développement: Vol. 31, No. 1-2, pp. 21-25
Le Rift est-africain
De la Corne de l’Afrique aux Grands Lacs, de l’Éthiopie au Mozambique, le Rift est-africain s’étend en une succession de dépressions, de hauts plateaux, de lacs et de volcans, le long d’une fracture majeure du continent africain. Tel un grand livre ouvert, le Rift s’offre comme un vaste laboratoire naturel permettant de retracer l’histoire de notre planète, de comprendre l’évolution de l’écorce terrestre, la formation des océans et des volcans. L…
Risk Management in a Hazardous Environment
Vue sur la violence
Dans un climat de conflits civils récurrents, le Kenya a vu s'accroître la violence locale et les razzias entre les communautés de pasteurs le long de son aride frontière nord. La violence transgresse les frontières et affecte les identités, qu'il s'agisse de personnes, de communautés ou de nations. Ce jeu de frontières, d'identités et de valeurs est illustré avec le compte rendu d'une attaque que les Turkana ont perpétrée en 1996 contre les Samb…
How Visual Figures Speak
Through their media images, pastoralists have become "icons" of African traditionalism and unwitting symbols of resistance to the modernist values of development and conservation. Their pictorial fame bears political costs. Popular visual images convey tacit narrative presuppositions that shape public (mis)understanding of pastoral communities, as tacitly pejorative images of pastoralists--most notably of Maasai--proliferate in film, tourist broc…
Grounding Pastoralists
Being "Maasai"; being "people-of-cattle
Conventional notions of ethnicity are similar to Maasai ideology, which asserts that the term Maasai refers to a nonproblematical, unitary, and given social entity. The term serves not as a simple ethnic marker, however, but as a pragmatic shifter. Its sense and reference vary across the ethnosociological context, signifying economic practice, the social margin, and the pastoral division of labor. The semiotic process, then, generates, rather tha…
The Future of Pastoral Peoples
Pollution and Pastoral Antipraxis
The issue of the inequality of specialized classes in pastoral Maasai society is discussed in relation to Mary Douglas's theoretical contribution to the analysis of pollution. The Douglas view, which would emphasize the social marginality and classificatory ambiguity of Maasai hunters, blacksmiths, and diviners is criticized as leaving unexplained their multiple forms of pollution and the origin of their distinctiveness. In contrast, this paper c…
The Collapsing Platform for Pastoralism
Although promises of tenure security have been used to justify land privatization, land reform has rarely benefitted the pastoral inhabitants of the East African rangelands. Pastoralists lose land due to corruption and illicit allocations at the moment of enclosure and subdivision of rangelands, as well as through land sales after they have received land titles. This article examines how the process of pastoralist land sales following titling occ…
Ceremony and Society
The topic as well as subject matter of ritual is intricate and elusive; the more we scrutinise it, the less clear it becomes. My aim in using concepts drawn from semiotics is not to interject yet another dimension of complexity between the observer and the problem and subject of ritual; rather, I hope that notions which have sharply clarified aspects of language may do so as well for ritual. This article explores the relevance of theories of lang…
Age, Generation and Time
Boundary-Making and Pastoral Conflict along the Kenyan-Ethiopian Borderlands
Boundaries are technologies of power and knowledge that shape spatial and social realities and our understandings of them. This article examines the effects of boundary-making between Kenya and Ethiopia, and investigates the effects of borders on states of peace and conflict among Turkana, Samburu, Borana, Gabra, and Dassanetch of northern Kenya. If borders divide people, people benefit nonetheless from the environmental, social, and political en…
Reasserting the commons
The theory that land holding is inexorably evolving from common to private or state tenure is challenged by facts on the ground that this paper will examine. ‘Tenure’ is interpreted both in terms of formal law and informal practices. While the association between privatization and land fragmentation is clear, property theory has influenced privatization so the process cannot be used to validate the evolutionary model of transitions from open acce…
Identities on the Move
Animal spirits and mimetic affinities
Human identities are often conceived in counter-position to objects outside the individual or the collective self with which lines of affinity or opposition, or the blurring together of both, run. Selfhood itself is forged out of the experience of "alterity" through encounters with diverse "others" with whom we identify or differentiate ourselves. With reference to the experience of East African pastoralists, this paper examines the meshing of hu…
Unused' Land and Unfulfilled Promises
Recent studies of large-scale land acquisitions, colloquially known as 'land grabbing', have reviewed factors driving international land deals, conditions that make regions vulnerable to land loss and anticipated outcomes for current land holders. Diverse audiences are persuaded by justificatory narratives of the reasonableness of transfers of land rights. which explain away large-scale transfers of land from farmers to commercial enterprises in …
Land and Livestock among Kenyan Maasai
How Visual Figures Speak
Through their media images, pastoralists have become "icons" of African traditionalism and unwitting symbols of resistance to the modernist values of development and conservation. Their pictorial fame bears political costs. Popular visual images convey tacit narrative presuppositions that shape public (mis)understanding of pastoral communities, as tacitly pejorative images of pastoralists--most notably of Maasai--proliferate in film, tourist broc…
Grounding Pastoralists
Conflict, Age and Power in North East Africa
Introduction
Institutional factors affecting wild edible plant (WEP) harvest and consumption in semi-arid Kenya
Pervasive food insecurity and poverty in much of the world drives vulnerable populations to harvest natural resources as a means of generating income and meeting other household needs. Wild edible plants (WEPs) are a particularly common and effective coping strategy used to increase socio-ecological resilience in Sub-Saharan Africa where agricultural systems are often sensitive to environmental perturbations and instability. WEPs are collected ac…
Nomads in a Changing World
Vue sur la violence
Dans un climat de conflits civils récurrents, le Kenya a vu s'accroître la violence locale et les razzias entre les communautés de pasteurs le long de son aride frontière nord. La violence transgresse les frontières et affecte les identités, qu'il s'agisse de personnes, de communautés ou de nations. Ce jeu de frontières, d'identités et de valeurs est illustré avec le compte rendu d'une attaque que les Turkana ont perpétrée en 1996 contre les Samb…
The Nyamwezi Today
The people and their country 2. Political organisation: local government and justice in the national frame 3. The village 4. Marriage and kinship 5. The Nyamwezi in the wider world Notes References Index
Resilience through Adaptation
This article examines strategies adopted by Maasai and other pastoralists in Kenya to adapt to climate change, population growth, land loss, decreasing livestock holdings and land degradation, aimed at achieving greater socio-economic resilience. Using case studies mostly from Narok County and reviewing the increasingly rich literature on pastoralism and conservation in East Africa, we show that pastoralists employ three main strategies to adapt …
Mountain Farmers
The Maasai Ornithorium
During the transition following ritual circumcision, Maasai boys kill, stuff, and mount decorative birds and wear the pelt rack as a headpiece. Recalling Evans-Pritchard's question of why Nuer equate twins and birds, this article asks why Maasai initiates kill birds; moreover, decorative birds, not birds of character with adult personality. The former index the liminality of initiates, in contrast to the lion-mane and ostrich-feather headdresses …
Grounds for Appeal
In a 1994 episode, Maasai herders from Ewuaso were prevented from watering livestock at wells along border between two ranches, but, before strife escalated, police established control. After such events, talk puts a construction on event, framing, highlighting, justifying and reinterpreting it to certain aims and purposes. This article discusses backdrop to conflict in Ewuaso: subdivision and privatization of lands, competition for land by polit…
The Ecology of Survival
Pollution and Pastoral Antipraxis
The issue of the inequality of specialized classes in pastoral Maasai society is discussed in relation to Mary Douglas's theoretical contribution to the analysis of pollution. The Douglas view, which would emphasize the social marginality and classificatory ambiguity of Maasai hunters, blacksmiths, and diviners is criticized as leaving unexplained their multiple forms of pollution and the origin of their distinctiveness. In contrast, this paper c…
Ethnology
Change and Development in Nomadic and Pastoral Societies
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Sex and Age as Principles of Social Differentiation. J. S. La Fontaine
Land and Livestock among Kenyan Maasai
Age, Generation and Time
Introduction
The Nyamwezi Today
The people and their country 2. Political organisation: local government and justice in the national frame 3. The village 4. Marriage and kinship 5. The Nyamwezi in the wider world Notes References Index
The Future of Pastoral Peoples
A State in the Making
Being "Maasai"; being "people-of-cattle
Conventional notions of ethnicity are similar to Maasai ideology, which asserts that the term Maasai refers to a nonproblematical, unitary, and given social entity. The term serves not as a simple ethnic marker, however, but as a pragmatic shifter. Its sense and reference vary across the ethnosociological context, signifying economic practice, the social margin, and the pastoral division of labor. The semiotic process, then, generates, rather tha…
Ceremony and Society
The topic as well as subject matter of ritual is intricate and elusive; the more we scrutinise it, the less clear it becomes. My aim in using concepts drawn from semiotics is not to interject yet another dimension of complexity between the observer and the problem and subject of ritual; rather, I hope that notions which have sharply clarified aspects of language may do so as well for ritual. This article explores the relevance of theories of lang…
The Drunken King or The Origin of the State. LUC DE HEUSCH
Pastoralisme, sédentarisation et État en Afrique de l'Est
Pastoralism, sedentarisation and state in East Africa. To consider sédentarisation as a solution to current problems of recurrent food crisis in pastoral societies located in arid and semi-arid zones is a preconceived notion. In reality, the crisis is caused by sédentarisation rather than nomadism. Confronted with settlement policies, nomadism, thanks to extensive grazing, remains an indispensable strategy for the human occupation of arid zones. …
The World of Pastoralism
The Ecology of Survival
Identities on the Move
L'homme et les animaux domestiques
Herders, Warriors, and Traders
How beasts lost their legs - cattle in Tswana economy and society, Jean Comaroff to increase cows, God created the king - the function of cattle in interlacustrine societies, P. Bonte drought and differential ability to bear risk - the Tuareg pastoral economy of Central Niger, Martha A. Starr political ecology in the Upper Nile - the 20th-century expansion of the pastoral common economy, Douglas H. Johnson herders, traders and clerics - trade, re…
Herders, Warriors, and Traders
Nomads in a Changing World
The Pastoral Son and the Spirit of Patriarchy
Grounds for Appeal
In a 1994 episode, Maasai herders from Ewuaso were prevented from watering livestock at wells along border between two ranches, but, before strife escalated, police established control. After such events, talk puts a construction on event, framing, highlighting, justifying and reinterpreting it to certain aims and purposes. This article discusses backdrop to conflict in Ewuaso: subdivision and privatization of lands, competition for land by polit…
The Maasai Ornithorium
During the transition following ritual circumcision, Maasai boys kill, stuff, and mount decorative birds and wear the pelt rack as a headpiece. Recalling Evans-Pritchard's question of why Nuer equate twins and birds, this article asks why Maasai initiates kill birds; moreover, decorative birds, not birds of character with adult personality. The former index the liminality of initiates, in contrast to the lion-mane and ostrich-feather headdresses …
Mountain Farmers
Geography (36 obras) · Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology (25 obras) · Sociology (22 obras) · Pastoralism (21 obras) · Livestock (20 obras) · Political science (19 obras) · History (15 obras) · Ethnology (13 obras) · African history and culture analysis (12 obras) · Archaeology (12 obras)