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Introduction - gender, culture and the myth of the patriarchalpastoralist, Dorothy I. Hodgson. Part 1 Making culture: gender and materialculture in West Pokot, Kenya, Barbara Bianco; gender, ethnicity and socialaesthetics in Maasai and Okiek beadwork, Corinne Kratz and Donna Pido; womenand men of the Khoekhoen of Southern Africa, Andrew B. Smith and Lita Webley.Part 2 Domains of power: pastoralism, patriarchy and history among Maasai inTanganyika, 1890-1940, Dorothy L. Hodgson; women's roles in peacemaking inSomali society, Asha Hagi Elmi et al; gender, ethnographic myths andcommunity-based conservation in a former Namibian "homeland", Sian Sullivan.Part 3 Social relations: the fertility of houses and herds - producingkinship and gender among Turkana pastoralists, Vigdis Brich-Due; exaltedmothers - gender aging and postchildbearing experience in a Tuareg community,Susan Rasmussen. Part 4 Negotiating development and modernity: milk sellingamong Fulani women in northern Burkina Faso, Solveig Buhl and KatherineHomewood; development ideologies and local knowledge among Samburu women innorthern Kenya, Bilinda Straight; pastoral disruption and cultural continuityin a pastoral town, M.I. Aguilar.