Transformations of high mountain pastoral strategies in the pamirian knot

Nomadic Peoples

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 102-123

  Kreutzmann, Hermann ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Central Asia; Combined mountain agriculture; Mountain pastoralism; Pamirs; Transformation

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL HISTORY; COLD WAR; DEVELOPMENT LEVEL; NINETEENTH CENTURY; PASTORALISM; STRUCTURAL CHANGE; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

AFGHANISTAN; BADAKHSHAN; CENTRAL ASIA; PAKISTAN; PAMIRS;

EID: 77953303988     PISSN: 08227942     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3167/np.2009.130207     Document Type: Article

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