Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue
- Chapter One From Orientalist Tropes to aDNA and Isotopes
- Chapter Two Resolving Conceptual Conflation
- Chapter Three Escaping the Tyranny of the Ethnographic Record on Pastoralism
- Chapter Four Bones, Teeth, Seeds, Dung, Corrals, and Beyond
- Chapter Five Biomolecular Approaches to Pastoralism, Diet, and Mobility in the Past
- Chapter Six Multidisciplinary Means of Addressing Pastoral Ecologies and Economies in the Past
- Chapter Seven Social and Political Perspectives on Ancient and Historical Pastoralism
- Chapter Eight Uniting Separate Regional Traditions for a Comparative Archaeology of Pastoralism
- Chapter Nine Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Chapter Three - Escaping the Tyranny of the Ethnographic Record on Pastoralism
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 September 2025
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue
- Chapter One From Orientalist Tropes to aDNA and Isotopes
- Chapter Two Resolving Conceptual Conflation
- Chapter Three Escaping the Tyranny of the Ethnographic Record on Pastoralism
- Chapter Four Bones, Teeth, Seeds, Dung, Corrals, and Beyond
- Chapter Five Biomolecular Approaches to Pastoralism, Diet, and Mobility in the Past
- Chapter Six Multidisciplinary Means of Addressing Pastoral Ecologies and Economies in the Past
- Chapter Seven Social and Political Perspectives on Ancient and Historical Pastoralism
- Chapter Eight Uniting Separate Regional Traditions for a Comparative Archaeology of Pastoralism
- Chapter Nine Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
The misuse of ethnographic analogy, illustrated through several case studies, has been and remains widespread in the archaeology of pastoralism. Earlier programmatic papers on how to strengthen the use of analogy in archaeology point to three proposals for how archaeologists interested in pastoralism might use ethnographic analogy more reliably, especially through evaluation of systematic biases in mid-twentieth-century pastoralist ethnography and highlighting temporal and spatial variability evidenced in ethnographic and historical accounts. Archaeological and ethnoarchaeological work on historical mobile pastoralism in southeastern Turkey illustrates one way of engaging with some of these proposals.
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- The Archaeology of Pastoralism, Mobility, and SocietyBeyond the Grass Paradigm, pp. 105 - 160Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2025
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