Cover -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Preface -- 1. Introduction: Pastoralism as an Adaptive Strategy -- 2. The Study of Nomads in the Republic of Kazakhstan -- 3. The Ecology of Inner Asian Pastoral Nomadism -- 4. Agropastoralism and Transhumance in Hunza -- 5. Animals, Identity, and Mortuary Behavior in Late Bronze Age-Early Iron Age Mongolia -- 6. Kalas and Kurgans -- 7. FulBe Pastoralists and the Neo-Patrimonial State in the Chad Basin -- 8. Flexibility in Navajo Pastoral Land Use -- 9. Accidental Dairy Farmers -- 10. Real Milk from Mechanical Cows -- 11. Island Pastoralism, Isolation, and Connection -- 12. The Ecology of Herding -- About the Contributors -- Index.