Abstract
the tendency in ethnography to compare the hunter and herder with the sedentary agriculturalist, the essay attempts to compare them witth each other as variations of a nomadic adaptation based on animals. Domestic herds of reindeer and wild herds of caribou and moose are evaluated as capital resources of northern herders and hunters; expertise in the handling of these resources and the rewards arising from the expertise are also evaluated. Hunters have been characterized recently as the original affluents; what, then, would be the commensurable characterization of nomadic pastoralists?
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