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1) A member of a people or tribe who move from place to place to find pasture and food. 2) Nomads include gypsies, desert tribes such as the Bedouin and the many primitive tribes in the Americas, Asia and Australia. Herding survives as a way of life around the Sahara, in the Middle East, in Asia as far east as western India, and in the Asian parts of the USSR. The end of pastoral nomadism would be regrettable not merely on account of the independence and distinctiveness of this way of life but because this type of economy may be a more rational means of raising large numbers of animals under arid conditions than is capital-intensive ranching. (Source: CED / WPR)

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Dean WRJ, Barnard P, Anderson MD 2009. When to stay, when to go: trade-offs for southern African arid-zone birds in times of drought. South Africa Journal of Science 105 24-28

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Dean WRJ 1997. The distribution and biology of nomadic birds in the Karoo, South Africa. Journal of Biogeography 24 769-779

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Bollig M 2006. An Outline of Pokot and Himba Societies: Environment, Political Economy and Cultural Beliefs. Risk Management in a Hazardous Environment 2 19-64

Website link:http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-0-387-27582-6_2

Warren A 1995. Changing understandings of African pastoralism and the nature of environmental paradigms. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers New Series 20 (2) 193-203

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/622431

Crawford RJM, Dyer BM, Brook RK 1994. Breeding nomadism in southern African seabirds: constraints, causes and conservation. Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology 65 (2) 231-246

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00306525.1994.9639687#.VRzupGf9kpE

Kinahan J 1992. Pastoral nomads of the central Namib Desert.

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/524774

Dean WRJ, Milton SJ 2001. Responses of birds to rainfall and seed abundance in the southern Karoo, South Africa. Journal of Arid Environments 47 (1) 101-121

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196300906931

Dean WRJ, Hockey PAR 1989. An ecological perspective of lark (Alaudidae) distribution and diversity in the southwest-arid zone of Africa. Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology 60 (1) 27 - 34

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00306525.1989.9634502#.VGoQd1ItBHg

Kinahan J 1994. A New Archaeological Perspective on Nomadic Pastoralist Expansion in South-western Africa. Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa 29-30 (1) 211-226

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00672709409511677#.VGnOE1ItBHg

Jacobsohn M 1995. Negotiating meaning and change in space and material culture: an ethno-archaeological study among semi-nomadic Himba and Herero herders in north-western Namibia.

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Ethno_archaeological study among semi_nomadic Himba and Herero herders in north_western Namibia.pdf	6.09 MB

Mendelsohn J, Milton S 2023. Where and when to go? Questions for nomadic birds. (March/April 2023) 49-53

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Norrdahl K, Korpimäki E 1996. Do nomadic avian predators synchronize population fluctuations of small mammals - a field experiment. Oecologia 107 478-483

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