Based on more than ten years of study among the Harasiis, a
Middle Eastern tribe living in the Sultanate of Oman, "Mobile
Pastoralists" is a powerful statement on the importance of
grassroots, people-based development and on the inadequacy of
conventional responses for such a community by the international
aid bureaucracy.
Dawn Chatty's work is the product of years of research among the
Harasiis, during which she headed an international development
project aiming to provide basic social services to the tribe
without disturbing their traditional nomadic pastoral way of life.
"Mobile Pastoralists" provides readers with a detailed description
of the conception, drafting, implementation, and completion of
Chatty's aid project. The book also includes nuanced case studies
of individual Harasiis men and women, showing how development
efforts and the complex forces of modernization have affected
members on a personal level.
Supplemented by a group of photographs of the tribe and their
environment, along with seven detailed regional maps, "Mobile
Pastoralists" is a study with valuable applications for
anthropology, cultural geography, development planning, and Middle
Eastern affairs.
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