Article: Customary Strangers: New Perspectives on Peripatetic Peoples in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia.(Book Review)

BERLAND, JOSEPH C. & APARNO RAO (eds). Customary strangers: new perspectives on peripatetic peoples in the Middle East, Africa and Asia. London: Praeger, 2004. [pounds sterling]56.99

Since the late 1970s, Joseph Berland and Aparna Rao have been leaders in a scholarly effort to define a form of itinerant economic adaptation that is not pastoral nomadism, but, rather, involves providing non-food goods and services to settled populations in various regions of the world. This type of adaptation is most developed in South Asia, where Berland and Rao did their own fieldwork. Their efforts to define this adaptation have led, however, to its being identified and studied ...

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