
Trader, Hunter, Herder, Other: Types and Categories of Nomadism
New Books in Anthropology
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Nomads - What Are They?
The trader nomads have been heavily discriminated against throughout their history in large part because of their proximity to sedentary peoples. There is officially no other nomadic category and I don't mean this as a sort of catch-all for nomadic peoples who don't fit neatly into one of the three former categories. So there can be many different types of nomad that don't always neatly huddle under the same umbrella. Within the lifespan of a single person, they may live more or less nomadically.
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