The poor are not us : poverty & pastoralism in Eastern Africa / edited by David M. Anderson & Vigdis Broch-Due.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Anderson, David, 1957-

Broch-Due, Vigdis.

Series:

Eastern African studies (London, England)

Eastern African studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Herders--Africa, East--Economic conditions.

Herders.

Pastoral systems--Economic aspects--Africa, East.

Pastoral systems.

Livestock--Economic aspects--Africa, East.

Livestock.

Poverty--Africa, East.

Poverty.

Social conditions.

Livestock--Economic aspects.

Pastoral systems--Economic aspects.

Economic conditions.

Africa, East--Economic conditions.

Africa, East.

Africa, East--Social conditions.

Physical Description:

xi, 276 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : J. Curry ; Nairobi : E.A.E.P. ; Athens : Ohio University Press, 1999.

Summary:

Eastern African pastoralists often present themselves as being egalitarian, equating cattle ownership with wealth. By this definition "the poor are not us": poverty is confined to non-pastoralist, socially excluded persons and groups.

Exploring this notion means discovering something about self-perceptions and community consciousness, how pastoralist identity has been made in opposition to other modes of production, how pastoralists want others to see them and how they see themselves.

This collection rejects the premise of pastoral egalitarianism and poses questions about the gradual creep of poverty, changing patterns of wealth and accumulation, the impact of diminishing resources on pastoral communities and the impact of external values of land, labor, and livestock.

Contents:

I Introduction: Poverty Past & Present 1

1 Poverty & the Pastoralist: Deconstructing Myths, Reconstructing Realities / Vigdis Broch-Due, David M. Anderson 3

2 Pastoral Poverty in Historical Perspective / Richard D. Waller 20

3 Remembered Cattle, Forgotten People: The Morality of Exchange & the Exclusion of the Turkana Poor / Vigdis Broch-Due 50

II Metaphors & Meanings 89

4 Power & Poverty in Southern Somalia / Bernhard Helander 91

5 Pastoralists at the Border: Maasai Poverty & the Development Discourse in Tanzania / Aud Talle 106

6 'We are as Sheep & Goats': Iraqw & Datooga Discourses on Fortune, Failure & the Future / Ole Bjorn Rekdal, Astrid Blystad 125

III Coins & Calories 147

7 Health Consequences of Pastoral Sedentarization among Rendille of Northern Kenya / Elliot Fratkin, Martha A. Nathan, Eric Abella Roth 149

8 Of Markets, Meat, Maize & Milk: Pastoral Commoditization in Kenya / Fred Zaal, Ton Dietz 163

9 Mutual Assistance among the Ngorongoro Maasai / Tomasz Potkanski 199

IV Development Dialogues 219

10 Images & Interventions: The Problems of Pastoralist Development / Dorothy L. Hodgson 221

11 Rehabilitation, Resettlement & Restocking Ideology & Practice in Pastoralist Development / David M. Anderson 240.

Notes:

"From a larger collection of papers produced for a conference held in 1995"--Pref.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0821413120

0821413139

OCLC:

42968114