JOSEPH C. BERLAND has lived and traveled with peripatetic communities in Southwest Asia for 25% years. He is the author of No Five Fingers Are Alike and is co-editor with Matt T. Salo of a special issue of the journal Nomadic Peoples devoted to peripatetic peoples. Formerly at Northwestern and Oxford Universities, he is now Adjunct Professor of Social Anthropology at Qaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan. He is retired from pedagogical activities and pursues full-time research.APARNA RAO is Professor at the Institute fur Volkerkunde, Universitat zu Koln, Germany.

• List of Maps, figures, and tablesUnveiling the Stranger: A New Look at Peripatetic Peoples by Joseph C. Berland and Aparna Rao"Once upon a Time": Reconciling the Stranger by Michael J. CasimirThe Middle EastRoving Traders among the Bedouin of South Sinai by Emanuel MarxBiography and Identity in Damascus: A Syrian Nawar Chief by Frank MeyerAfricaAffiliations of the Stomach: Smith as "Stranger" among the Tuareg by Susan Rasmussen"They work to eat and they eat to work": M'allemin Blacksmiths and Theoretical Considerations of Classification and Discourse among the Bidan Nobility of Mauritania by Mariella Villasante CervelloStrangers in Their Wwn Land by Michael de JonghNoble Strangers: The Nile Valley Gypsies in the Ethnic Mosaic of Sudan by Bernhard StreckSinging Smiths and Hunting Ritual Entrepreneurs: Transitions between Forager and Peripatetic Communities in Africa by Michael BolligThey Travel Together and Fight a Lot by Joseph BerlandProfessional Strangers in Urban Pakistan: A Note on Peripatetic Specialists by Jurgen Wasim FrembgenStrangers and Liminal Beings: Some Thoughts on Peripatetics, Insiders, and Outsiders in Southwest Asia by Aparna RaoEnduring Strangers: Mughat, Lyuli, and other Peripatetics in the Social Fabric of Central Asia by Shirin AkinerThe Orange Suku Laut: Owners of or Strangers in the Riau Archipelago of Indonesia? by Cynthia ChouNotes on ContributorsIndex

JOSEPH C. BERLAND has lived and traveled with peripatetic communities in Southwest Asia for 25% years. He is the author of No Five Fingers Are Alike and is co-editor with Matt T. Salo of a special issue of the journal Nomadic Peoples devoted to peripatetic peoples. Formerly at Northwestern and Oxford Universities, he is now Adjunct Professor of Social Anthropology at Qaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan. He is retired from pedagogical activities and pursues full-time research.APARNA RAO is Professor at the Institute fur Volkerkunde, Universitat zu Koln, Germany.

• List of Maps, figures, and tablesUnveiling the Stranger: A New Look at Peripatetic Peoples by Joseph C. Berland and Aparna Rao"Once upon a Time": Reconciling the Stranger by Michael J. CasimirThe Middle EastRoving Traders among the Bedouin of South Sinai by Emanuel MarxBiography and Identity in Damascus: A Syrian Nawar Chief by Frank MeyerAfricaAffiliations of the Stomach: Smith as "Stranger" among the Tuareg by Susan Rasmussen"They work to eat and they eat to work": M'allemin Blacksmiths and Theoretical Considerations of Classification and Discourse among the Bidan Nobility of Mauritania by Mariella Villasante CervelloStrangers in Their Wwn Land by Michael de JonghNoble Strangers: The Nile Valley Gypsies in the Ethnic Mosaic of Sudan by Bernhard StreckSinging Smiths and Hunting Ritual Entrepreneurs: Transitions between Forager and Peripatetic Communities in Africa by Michael BolligThey Travel Together and Fight a Lot by Joseph BerlandProfessional Strangers in Urban Pakistan: A Note on Peripatetic Specialists by Jurgen Wasim FrembgenStrangers and Liminal Beings: Some Thoughts on Peripatetics, Insiders, and Outsiders in Southwest Asia by Aparna RaoEnduring Strangers: Mughat, Lyuli, and other Peripatetics in the Social Fabric of Central Asia by Shirin AkinerThe Orange Suku Laut: Owners of or Strangers in the Riau Archipelago of Indonesia? by Cynthia ChouNotes on ContributorsIndex

JOSEPH C. BERLAND has lived and traveled with peripatetic communities in Southwest Asia for 25% years. He is the author of No Five Fingers Are Alike and is co-editor with Matt T. Salo of a special issue of the journal Nomadic Peoples devoted to peripatetic peoples. Formerly at Northwestern and Oxford Universities, he is now Adjunct Professor of Social Anthropology at Qaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan. He is retired from pedagogical activities and pursues full-time research.APARNA RAO is Professor at the Institute fur Volkerkunde, Universitat zu Koln, Germany.

• List of Maps, figures, and tablesUnveiling the Stranger: A New Look at Peripatetic Peoples by Joseph C. Berland and Aparna Rao"Once upon a Time": Reconciling the Stranger by Michael J. CasimirThe Middle EastRoving Traders among the Bedouin of South Sinai by Emanuel MarxBiography and Identity in Damascus: A Syrian Nawar Chief by Frank MeyerAfricaAffiliations of the Stomach: Smith as "Stranger" among the Tuareg by Susan Rasmussen"They work to eat and they eat to work": M'allemin Blacksmiths and Theoretical Considerations of Classification and Discourse among the Bidan Nobility of Mauritania by Mariella Villasante CervelloStrangers in Their Wwn Land by Michael de JonghNoble Strangers: The Nile Valley Gypsies in the Ethnic Mosaic of Sudan by Bernhard StreckSinging Smiths and Hunting Ritual Entrepreneurs: Transitions between Forager and Peripatetic Communities in Africa by Michael BolligThey Travel Together and Fight a Lot by Joseph BerlandProfessional Strangers in Urban Pakistan: A Note on Peripatetic Specialists by Jurgen Wasim FrembgenStrangers and Liminal Beings: Some Thoughts on Peripatetics, Insiders, and Outsiders in Southwest Asia by Aparna RaoEnduring Strangers: Mughat, Lyuli, and other Peripatetics in the Social Fabric of Central Asia by Shirin AkinerThe Orange Suku Laut: Owners of or Strangers in the Riau Archipelago of Indonesia? by Cynthia ChouNotes on ContributorsIndex