Posted by Steve Price on March 30, 1999 at 19:57:03:
In Reply to: Re: "Nomad' and Social Class posted by R. John Howe on March 30, 1999 at 19:40:38:
Dear John and Everyone,
Are we confusing "tribal" with "nomadic" here? It's my impression that it takes a certain amount of wealth (in the form of animals) to be a nomad. This must be true for a pastoral nomad since he is, by definition, a sheepherder who moves his sheep between summer and winter pastures. How can a nomad be agriculturally based? Does he own farm land in several places and travel between them? Or, as I suspect, is he a tribesperson who is not nomadic?
Steve Price