No. 266 / April 1995
Nomads
Editor's
letter
- Nomads at the crossroads
Wayne Ellwood on the efforts to convince nomads
to settle down - and their disastrous consequences.
- Sea nomads
Dry land makes them nauseous. Sara Medhurst and John Darling
report from Indonesia.
- Between home and horizon
Oakland Ross muses about life on the road.
- Don't fence me in
Herders versus farmers in Senegal. Karen Schoonmaker Freudenberger
discovers a modern West African version of an age-old conflict.
- Desert storm
Pasture is turning to sand in Rajasthan.
Cath Sanders gives the villagers' view.
- NOMADS - THE FACTS
- On the road to nowhere
David Watson examines the link between mobility and rootlessness in the
United States and argues that it's time for Americans to come home.
- History's scapegoats
Pull up a chair and meet Gypsy filmmaker Tony Gatlif.
Interview by Roger Morier.
- The Maasai and the Travellers
Nikki van der Gaag introduces Peter to Sakie and Anna.
- Simply - perils of
privatization
- Dreams, symbols and totems
Camels and cattle mean more than milk and meat to nomads.
John Galaty explains.
- Tents in the city
Mongols cling tenaciously to their culture.
Report from Ulaan Baatar by Terence Hay-Eadie.
- Letters
- Letter from Ingushetia
- Update
- The NI Interview with Mohammed Wardi
- Reviews: including Douglas Hofstadter classic
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