Greener Pastures: Politics, Markets, and Community Among a Migrant Pastoral People

by Arun Agrawal

Social scientists theorizing about political economy and the allocation of resources have usually omitted migrant communities from their studies. In Greener Pastures Arun Agrawal uses the story of the Raikas, a little-known group of migrant shepherds in western India, to reexamine current scholarship on markets and exchange, local and state politics, and community and hierarchy. The Raikas are virtually invisible in the regions through which...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082232122X
• ISBN13: 9780822321224
• Release Date: March 1999
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.2"