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Download or read book The Nomadic Alternative written by Thomas Jefferson Barfield and published by Pearson. This book was released on 1993 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following basic themes in each chapter, this text makes an ethnographic and historical examination of nomadic pastoral societies in Africa, the Near East, Iranian Plateau, and Central Eurasia. It studies the cattlekeepers, the camel nomads, the good shepherds of southwest Asia, the horseriders, the yakbreeders, and the enduring nomad. For anthropologists and all those interested in nomadic cultures.