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Swift Pastoralism: Research, Policy and Practice 2011, 1:5 http://www.pastoralismjournal.com/content/1/1/5 BOOK REVIEW Open Access Katherine Homewood. Ecology of African Pastoralism Jeremy J Swift Correspondence: jeremyjamesswift@yahoo.com recently retired from the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, Brighton BN1 9RE, UK Book details Homewood Katherine: Ecology of African Pastoralist Societies. Oxford: James Currey; Athens: Ohio University Press; Pretoria: Unisa Press; 2008:392 pages. ISBN 978-0-85255-990-1 Katharine Homewood has written a bold book of wide scope. Her objective is to bring together material on the ecology, in the broadest sense, of pastoral groups throughout Africa. She wants to show the diversity of pastoral systems, the ways they interact with other forms of. | Swift Pastoralism Research Policy and Practice 2011 1 5 http www.pastoralismjournal.eom content 1 1 5 o Pastoralism a SpringerOpen Journal BOOK REVIEW Open Access Katherine Homewood. Ecology of African Pastoralism Jeremy J Swift Correspondence jeremyjamesswift@yahoo.com recently retired from the Institute of Development Studies University of Sussex Brighton BN1 9RE UK Book details Homewood Katherine Ecology of African Pastoralist Societies. Oxford James Currey Athens Ohio University Press Pretoria Unisa Press 2008 392 pages. ISBN 978-0-85255-990-1 Katharine Homewood has written a bold book of wide scope. Her objective is to bring together material on the ecology in the broadest sense of pastoral groups throughout Africa. She wants to show the diversity of pastoral systems the ways they interact with other forms of land use while analysing common characteristics across pastoral societies as a whole. As Professor of Anthropology at University College London a noted researcher on the Maasai and the promoter of an excellent Masters degree in Anthropology which focuses on ecological issues Homewood is well placed to do this. She covers an enormous field. In nomadic fashion she roams widely across the pastoral literature covering pastoral groups in West Africa as well and Eastern and Southern Africa she reports findings from several disciplines and from specialist fields. The ecological focus of the book means that natural science and ecology occupy the most important place but there is a solid social and political scaffolding. The book opens with a short summary of cross-cutting issues which underpin the analysis of African pastoral systems and provide a framework within which we can understand the trajectories of change in pastoral societies. Homewood s underlying idea is first to link dryland ecosystem dynamics to associated patterns of pastoralist use especially mobility second to explore how management of and access to these resources interacts with the social .
