Photo above by Joana Roque de PinhoThe Commission is happy to invite submissions for the 2026 Photo Contest on the broad topic of nomadic peoples, as defined in Nomadic Peoples. This is a new, annual contest. The winner receives recognition as well as the chance to have their image featured…
Photos above: right: Professor Anne-Marie Brisebarre, left: Professor Pierre Bonte We are thrilled to introduce a new grant for graduate students: the Bonte–Brisebarre Grant. The grant, made possible through generous fundraising efforts of colleagues in France, is named in memory of Professor Anne-Marie Brisebarre (who passed away in June 2025)…
Photo above by Dawn Chatty The Commission on Nomadic Peoples is reviving its “news round-up” with this edition covering the second half of 2025. The next newsletter will come out in June 2026. Please, let us know any announcement, initiative, project or publication you’d like to see in it. Click…
Photo above: Sibaouaih Mohammed Yahdih (Camel herder from Morocco) speaking with Ms Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim (Chad) President of the 23rd UNPFIIProfessor Dawn Chatty (Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford) just published a new article on the French journal Nomopolis on mobile indigenous peoples and human rights. The article nicely summarizes…
Colorful one-story homes line a quiet cobblestone street in Guatemala Oyundalai OdkhuuMy research project investigates the masculinization of immobility and the feminization of mobility within the broader transformation of pastoral life in rural Mongolia. Male herders who remain tied to the land are often marginalized and labelled as “dirty”, “unskilled”…
Nomadic Peoples 29.2 (2025) is now published: Link: NOMADIC PEOPLES 29.2 (2025) Special Section: Jeremy J. Swift (1939–2024) Personal Recollections Jeremy Swift, Research Memo: The Start of the Rains Jeremy Swift’s bibliography Research Articles Cecilia Conte, Deconstructing the Concept of the ‘Nomad’ in Central Eurasia Lucie Buffavand, Road to Violence:…
Nancy Lindisfarne-Tapper studied and taught anthropology at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London. Her book Bartered Brides is a classic ethnography of the Piruzai. Richard Tapper is emeritus Professor of Anthropology at SOAS. This book is a companion volume to his Afghan Village Voices, a remarkable compilation of…
Ulrich Poehlmann (University of Edinburgh; ulrich@poehlmann.co)As an undergraduate student, I had not expected to be invited to attend, much less speak, at the Oxford Interdisciplinary Desert Conference this past March 2025. At first, I was unsure of what to expect, but I found an incredibly diverse group of scholars and…
We’re excited to announce the release of Nordic Climate Histories: Impacts, Pathways, Narratives, an innovative and timely volume that brings together, for the first time, climate histories from across all the Nordic countries. Edited by Dominik Collet, Ingar Mørkestøl Gundersen, Heli Huhtamaa, Fredrik Charpentier Ljungqvist, Astrid Ogilvie, and Sam White,…
Image above: Cattle grazing on the shores of Lake Chad (photo by Marina Bertoncin, 2011) Andrea Pase, Angela Kronenburg García and Mariasole Pepa (University of Padua, Italy) The rivers and lakes of the Sahel are a vital source of life, which, over time, have allowed many activities to flourish in rhythm…
Above image by Gonçalo Mota, RHE Initiative Julio Sa Rego (RHE Initiative and CRIA-Centre for Research in Anthropology) and Ioana Baskerville (Romanian Academy - Iasi Branch)On June 4th, Portugal inscribed transhumance in its National Inventory of Intangible Cultural Heritage. It is the continuation of the global process of recognition of…
Photo above by Dawn Chatty The Commission on Nomadic Peoples is reviving its “news round-up”, starting with this first newsletter (of two a year). The next newsletter will come out in December 2025. Please, let us know any announcement, initiative, project or publication you’d like to see in it. Click…
