Pastoralists at the Periphery: Herders in a Capitalist World. (book reviews)

Although concerned with nineteenth-century histories of livestock-keeping populations, this volume leads the study of pastoralists directly towards the twenty-first century by locating their social transformations within a world systems framework of expanding global capitalism.

Chang and Koster present a volume more coherent than most symposium collections due in no small part to their analytic introduction and organization of the chapters into three distinct sections: the 'International wool trade', 'Pastoralists as rural proletarians' and 'Pastoralists at the periphery of the world ...

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