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sedentarization

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  • noun US, anthropology settling of a nomadic population; sedentism

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  • Nunavut is a land struggling to be born, rife with social problems arising from what was in effect imposed and poorly planned sedentarization in the 1950s and early 1960s, with chronic unemployment (28% for Inuit), a suicide rate 9 times the national average, a housing crisis and a dysfunctional educational system.

    Archive 2009-08-01 2009

  • Note 7: Incidents of nomadization such as that experienced by Muhin Shah are far less frequently discussed in anthropological literature than episodes of sedentarization.

    Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier 2008

  • For a model of sedentarization as a processual, voluntary, and flexible response to changing local circumstances, see Salzman (1980), p. 14, which is useful because it prompts a reciprocal characterization of nomadization and its forms as adaptive strategies rather than teleologically.

    Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier 2008

  • In his observations of this process of settling down, or sedentarization, of pastoral nomads, Alt believed that he understood the situation described in the book of Judges.

    The Bible Unearthed Israel Finkelstein 2001

  • Their initial stages of sedentarization in the highlands did not attract Egyptian hostility, because Egypt was concerned mainly with the fertile areas along the coast and in the northern valleys, close to the strategic international overland routes of trade.

    The Bible Unearthed Israel Finkelstein 2001

  • Since 1855 the Ottomans had encouraged the sedentarization of the bedouin.

    1858 2001

  • In his observations of this process of settling down, or sedentarization, of pastoral nomads, Alt believed that he understood the situation described in the book of Judges.

    The Bible Unearthed Israel Finkelstein 2001

  • Flocks would then have to be reduced as the period of migrations grew shorter, and with more and more effort invested in agriculture, a permanent shift to sedentarization occurred.

    The Bible Unearthed Israel Finkelstein 2001

  • Flocks would then have to be reduced as the period of migrations grew shorter, and with more and more effort invested in agriculture, a permanent shift to sedentarization occurred.

    The Bible Unearthed Israel Finkelstein 2001

  • Their initial stages of sedentarization in the highlands did not attract Egyptian hostility, because Egypt was concerned mainly with the fertile areas along the coast and in the northern valleys, close to the strategic international overland routes of trade.

    The Bible Unearthed Israel Finkelstein 2001

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