1. Introduction to Pastoralism Section I: The emergence of pastoralism
2. Coevolution in pastoral systems: The example of African sheep and goats
3. Archaeology of pastoralism: Forty years of archaeological studies of pastoralism across the world
4. Archaeological, historical, and ethnographic analyses of changes in pastoral systems Section II: Colonialism, capitalism, and commodities
5. Cattle Ranching: Handmaiden of Settler Colonialism
6. Livestock and Global Capitalism
7. Livestock Commodities in a Globalizing World: Between Pastoralism and Capitalism Section III: Biophysical components of pastoralism
8. Rangeland Ecology
9. Livestock nutrition in pastoral systems
10. The ecology of health and infectious diseases in changing pastoral systems
11. Demographic Dynamics in Pastoral Systems Section IV: Pastoral adaptations
12. Pastoral mobility
13. Contributions of pastoralism to climate change
14. Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation
15. Valuing pastoralist goods, services and culture
16. Ecosystem services and pastoralism Section V: Social and political organization of pastoralism
17. Pastoralist Social Organization
18. Continuity and Change in Pastoralist Identities
19. Development and Gender in Herding Societies
20. Political organization
21. How Pastoralists Access Natural Resources
22. Between-group contest competition among pastoralists Section VI: Approaches to studying pastoralism
23. Spatial Analysis of Pastoral Mobility
24. Simulation as an Approach to Pastoral System Analyses
25. Methodologies for understanding rangeland ecology
26. Animal’s intentional acting and cultural understanding of behavior: the place and role of animal agentivity in pastoralism
27. Contributions of ethnographic and community-based methods to interdisciplinary studies of pastoralist health and wellbeing
28. Participatory Action Research in Pastoral Systems: Tools for Empowerment, Innovation, and Resilience Section VII: Development of pastoralism
29. Trends in Pastoralists' Sedentarization: Causes, Consequences, and Policies
30. Divergent livelihood pathways in pastoralist areas of the Horn of Africa
31. Humanitarian crises and responses in the Horn of Africa
32. Pastoralism and Conservation: Compatibilities, Conflicts, and Promise
33. Politics of Land Grabbing in Pastoral Territories Section VIII: Futures of pastoralism
34. Provisioning of social and economic services to pastoralist communities in Africa: models, impacts and prospects for improvement
35. Rethinking policies for pastoralists: Experiences from four world regions
36. Pathways and possibilities for pastoralist youth