The Poor Are Not Us

Poverty and Pastoralism in Eastern Africa

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Edited by David M. Anderson and Vigdis Broch-Due

Ohio University Press

Due/Published April 2000, 276 pages, paper

ISBN 0821413139

This collection rejects the premise of pastoral egalitarianism and poses questions about the gradual creep of poverty, changing patterns of wealth and accumulation, the impact of diminishing resources on pastoral communities and the impact of external values of land, labour and livestock.