Document Type
Article
Publication Date
9-1-2004
Department
Anthropology and Sociology
Abstract
Madagascar's Mahafale cattle raisers have adopted several species of the prickly pear cactus (Opuntia) into their subsistence patterns. Their use of Opuntia has had the economic effects of both sedentary and transhumant intensification. It lengthens the stay of pastoralists at their villages and structures the timing of their seasonal migration to distant pastures.
Publication Title
Ethnology
Volume
43
Issue
4
First Page
345
Last Page
361
Recommended Citation
Kaufmann, J. C.
(2004). Prickly Pear Cactus and Pastoralism in Southwest Madagascar. Ethnology, 43(4), 345-361.
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