...Robert C. Schwaller Black Ranching Frontiers: African Cattle Herders of the Atlantic World, 1500–1900 . By Sluyter Andrew . ( New Haven, CT : Yale University Press , 2012 . xii + 308 pp., preface, notes, index . $45.00 cloth.) Copyright 2014 by American Society for Ethnohistory...

...Michael D. Wise Cattle Colonialism: An Environmental History of the Conquest of California and Hawai’i . By Fischer John Ryan . ( Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 2015 . xii+266 pp., illustrations, table, notes, bibliography, index . $39.99 cloth.) Copyright 2017...

... (the Turkana community). Competition over resources for livestock husbandry contributed to cattle rustling between Ngturkana and their nomadic pastoralist neighbors. The punitive raids of 1901, 1913, 1915, and 1917-18 by the British led to the exodus of Ngturkana to other districts of Kenya and to Karimojong...

...Aneesa Kassam The “ethnic” origins of the Gabra camel pastoralists who live on the Kenyan-Ethiopian border and their relationship to the territorially adjacent Borana cattle pastoralists are matters of ongoing academic debate. This article, which is based on Gabra clan traditions, suggests...

...Patricia Fournier-García; Lourdes Mondragón During the colonial period, Indian republics were formed as were private holdings in the Otomí region of the Mezquital Valley. The indigenous population was deprived of fertile agricultural lands while ranchos and haciendas raised cattle, affecting...

...Rani T. Alexander During the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries in Yaxcabá, Yucatán, Mexico, the expansion of Spanish-American-owned cattle estates occurred in response to indigenous population growth and the implementation of the Bourbon political reforms. Although clearly described...

.... Scholarship about the Guaraní missions portrays the Jesuits as imposing a rigid work schedule based on settled agriculture and instituting reforms so that the missions relied on domesticated rather than hunted cattle. This essay reexamines the roles of both cultivated agriculture and domesticated livestock...

... and Zebu Cattle(Bos taurus and Bos indicus). Genetics 146 : 1071 -886. Miller, Joseph C., ed. 1980 The African Past Speaks: Essays on Oral Tradition and History . Folke-stone,u.k., and Hamden, ct: Dawson and Archon. Mirzeler, Mustafa 1999 Veiled Histories, and the Childhood Memories of a Jie...

... confraternities were very poor and depended on alms as well as fixed membership contributions to keep them going. Some, even some of the poorest ones, owned lands, cattle, sheep, and other agricultural resources. Many individual...

... they would raid criollo settlements to obtain goods, mules, horses, and cattle by force. These social and economic relations were prevalent during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, at a time when the region was a provider of cattle and mules to colonial markets. A well-traveled commercial route...

... grasslands and rich pastures on the hillsides that provide excellent grazing for Turkana cattle, camels, sheep, and goats. Woodlands and thick tall grass are found on the upper slopes and along the banks of water- courses. Confined by the western rift and Lake Turkana at the bottom of the eastern...

... was a huge success in the south, but not as a protector of French East India Company interests as Maudave had hoped. The Mala- gasy, especially cattle pastoralists, appropriated raketa (the Malagasy name for it) into their ecologies...

... of po- litical history—what happened in the past—for at issue here is the origin of the most basic and valued elements of contemporary Karembola identity: their names, their cattle earmarks, their ancestors...

... College of London Press. Marshall, F., and E. Hildebrand 2002 Cattle before Crops: The Beginnings of Food Production in Africa. Journal of World Prehistory 16 : 99 -143. Mohammed-Ali, A. S., and A.-R. M. Khabir 2003 The Wavy Line and the Dotted Wavy Line Pottery in the Prehistory...

... on which tributaries of the Paraguay and Paraná rivers would limit Iberian domains (Costa 2009 ; Herreros Cleret de Langavant 2017 ) ( fig. 1 ). The Spanish had been approaching Alto Paraguay since the early 1760s, when Jesuits founded the Belén mission among some Guaicuru tolderías. Paraguayan cattle...

... ; Koch 1902a , 1902b ). I restricted the scope of my work to the period between the mid-sixteenth and the mid-nineteenth centuries. After 1860, the Bolivian state carried out a decisive colonization drive on the Chaco plains, driven by cattle ranchers and small army posts—a territorial...

... and southwest, coupled with its availability as a reliable year-round source of food and water for both cattle and humans, produced an environment in which local people could move quickly and easily around the countryside...

... civilization is unique. But as for many cultural elements in the country, there are regional specificities depending on the life and history of groups. The Masikoro live by agriculture and especially zebu (cattle) pastoralism...

... there was an increas- ing socioeconomic differentiation in the village by the way people used the terms ‘‘rich’’ and ‘‘poor ‘‘Rich’’ was the synonym for those engaged in commercial enterprises, the buying and selling of grains, hogs, and cattle...

... cloth.) Copyright 2014 by American Society for Ethnohistory 2014 Book Reviews Black Ranching Frontiers: African Cattle Herders of the Atlantic World, 1500–1900. By Andrew Sluyter. (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2012. xii + 308 pp., preface, notes, index. $45.00 cloth.) Robert C...