Thematic session 2

Session 2: What are the links between nomads of yesterday and today.

What endogenous (endogamy, rituals, emergence of leaders with specific claims, ...) and exogenous (rejection by local populations, ...) mechanisms contribute to maintaining a nomadic identity?  What are the factors contributing to its erosion (forced sedentarization, decline of pastoralism, ...)? This session will also provide an opportunity to initiate a reflection on the nomadism of prehistoric populations with regard to the actualist approach. In this sense, does nomadism seem to you to respond to a certain number of universals? Which ones would be relevant for you? Are nomadism yesterday and  nomadism today comparable, notably in their diversity (structures, distances, rhythms...)?