Pastoralists under pressure? : : fulbe societies confronting change in West Africa / / edited by Victor Azarya [and three others].

• Superior document: Social, Economic and Political Studies of the Middle East and Asia ; Volume 65
• TeilnehmendeR: Azarya, Victor,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [1999]; ©1999
• Year of Publication: 1999
• Language: English
• Series: Social, economic, and political studies of the Middle East and Asia ; Volume 65.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

This book brings together the work of a number of leading specialists of the Fulbe (Fulani, Peul), the largest and most widespread group of pastoralists in West Africa. The collection deals with a wide variety of subjects, ranging from ethnicity and identity, ecology and politics, and social transformation and takes us to such diverse settings across the African continent as urban Nigeria, dryland West and Central Mali, the Aadamaawa plateau in Cameroon, the Guinean highlands, the Ivorian savannah, the Central Sudan, Northern Benin and the Senegal valley. This volume shows that the Fulbe are a fascinating example for the comparative study of social change, and ecological and cultural adaptation by discussing contemporary changes in Fulbe society and the amazing variety of settings in which they are able to survive.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Figures, maps and tables -- Preface / Victor Azarya , Anneke Breedveld , Mirjam de Bruijn , and Han van Dijk -- Chapter One Introduction: pastoralists under pressure? / Victor Azarya -- Chapter Two Why are there so many pastoral groups in eastern Africa / Roger Blench -- Chapter Three Socio-cultural, socio-economic and socio-linguistic diversity among the Fulɓe of the Sudan Republic / Al-Amin Abu-Manga -- Chapter Four Prototypes and ethnic categorization on the terms Pullo and Fulɓe in Maasina (Mali) / Anneke Breedveld -- Chapter Five Ethnic change and continuity among the Fulɓe of Aadamaawa Nigeria the view from the household / Catherine Vereecke -- Chapter Six Les stratifications des structures politico-sociales de la société traditionelle au Fuuta Jaloo évolution et transformation / Thierno Diallo -- Chapter Seven Fulbe livestock raising and environmental change in Northern Côte d'Ivoire / Thomas J. Bassett and Zuéli Koli Bi -- Chapter Eight Nouvelles techniques d'élevage en savanes, nouvelles inegalités (Aadamaawa, Cameroon) / Jean Boutrais -- Chapter Nine The end of the herding contract decreasing complementary linkages between Fulɓe pastoralists and Dendi agriculturalists in northern Benin / Antje van Driel -- Chapter Ten Dimensions sociales et politiques de l'expansion pastorale en zone semi-humide ivoirienne / Youssouf Diallo -- Chapter Eleven Ecological insecurity and Fulɓe pastoral society in the Niger Bend / Han van Dijk -- Chapter Twelve Pastoralism under pressure? - understanding social change in Fulɓe society / Philip Burnham -- Chapter Thirteen The pastoral poor: hazard, crisis and insecurity in Fulɓe society in Central Mali / Mirjam de Bruijn -- Chapter Fourteen Mutations et crise d'identité au Fuuta Jaloo: la fin du pastoralisme? / Thierno Bah -- Chapter Fifteen L'expulsion des Fulɓe de la rive mauritanienne du fleuve Sénégal en 1989: répétition dans l'histoire ou catastrophe / Jean Schmitz -- Chapter Sixteen Fulbe communities in Kaarta (northwestern Mali) three hundred years of survival and transformation / John Hanson -- Glossary -- Index -- References -- List of contributors.