The Role of the State in Peasant-Nomad Mutualism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2581829 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Daniel G Bates (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1971 |
| Volume | 44 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 109 |
| Publication date | 1971-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Anthropological Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-5491 • E-ISSN: 1534-1518 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3316933 |
| OpenAlex | W2329279782 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 25 |
Patterns of mutual land use between ethnically distinct nomadic pastoral and sedentary agricultural populations occur in some areas of the Near East. The niches occupied by such groups may appear to be non-competitive in that different seasonal schedules of land use and different modes of production permit the joint exploitation of common territory. However, such land use relationships are inherently unstable because the limits of the political economy of either ethnically defined mode of production are rarely coterminous with the distribution of the resources a population could exploit if it had access to them. Therefore, it is contended that peasant-nomad expressions of land-use mutualism and symbiotic exchange are best viewed as a function of a balance of power, and not as the result of the exploitation of intrinsically ,non-competitive niches. In the Near East, the state, by interfering in these power relations even beyond the limits of its full sovereignty, is often a more critical factor in determining land use relations than the local ecology
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| Unique citing works | 25 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,48 |
| Citation span | 1974 - 2014 (41) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 25 |