Changing Responsibilities and Collective Action

Examining Early North African Pastoralism

Bibliographic Data

ID5947501
AuthorsAlexandra Miller (0000-0003-2048-579X, Northwestern University, corresponding author)
Year2008
Volume18
Issue1
Pages76-86
Publication date2008-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueArcheological Papers of the American Anthropological Association (BOOK_SERIES)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1551-823X • E-ISSN: 1551-8248
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1551-8248.2008.00006.x
OpenAlexW1836925813
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited12

This chapter uses the concept of an economic transition point to examine and challenge assumptions about static gender roles in pastoralist societies. The transition from a hunting-and-gathering economy to an agro-pastoralist economy would have forced North Africans to perform tasks related to both economic systems until the pastoralist way of life could be firmly established. The greater need for labor in these transitional societies would have discouraged the formation of strict gender divisions like those seen in today's pastoralist societies. The changing needs of the economy would have necessitated a flexible division of labor. To examine these changing needs, this chapter examines evidence from rock art, archaeological sites, and modern pastoralist ethnography

Division of labour · Economics · Economy · Ethnography · Geography · Livestock · Pastoralism · Political science · Sociology · Anthropology · Archaeology and Rock Art Studies · Law · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology · Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology

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