Vol. 7 · No. 2 · 2003
The Long Walk V
Pastoral Nomads and Anthropology: an Interview with Fredrik Barth

Aparna Rao

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In 2000, Nomadic Peoples started a series of interviews with senior scholars who have worked on nomadism and among nomadic communities. Obviously, Fredrik Barth was on our list of interviewees right from the beginning. Two years earlier, he had also graciously accepted the 'Lifetime Achievement Award' presented to him by the IUAES Commission on Nomadic Peoples (cf.Salzman 1997). All interviewers in this series have either been students or colleagues of the scholars interviewed and indeed, in some cases, the editors of Nomadic Peoples approached the scholars through these 'middlemen'. In the case of Fredrik Barth, however, this did not happen.