In this thorough analysis, Barth explores the features of and the economic, social, and political adaptations to the nomadic, pastoral existence of this tent-dwelling the drama of herding and migration; the idleness of a pastoral existence where the herds satisfy the basic needs of man; the freedom, or necessity, of movement through a vast, barren landscape. Titles of related interest from Waveland Azoy, Game and Power in Afghanistan, Third Edition (ISBN 9781577667209) and Jordan, The Making of a Modern Globalization and Change in Saudi Arabia (ISBN 9781577667025).
