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List of nomadic peoples

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This is a list of nomadic people arranged by economic specialization and region.

Nomadic people are communities who move from one place to another, rather than settling permanently in one location. Many cultures have traditionally been nomadic, but nomadic behavior is increasingly rare in industrialized countries.

Hunter-gatherers

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Nomadic hunting and gathering, following seasonally available wild plants and game, is the oldest human method of subsistence.

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  • Most Papuans prior to Western contact

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Pastoralists

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Pastoralists raise herds, driving them or moving with them, in patterns that normally avoid depleting pastures beyond their ability to recover. The pastoralists are sedentary, remaining within a local area, but moving between permanent spring, summer, autumn and winter (or dry and wet season) pastures for their livestock.

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Peripatetic

Peripatetic nomads offer the skills of a craft or trade to the settled populations among whom they travel. They are the most common remaining nomadic peoples in industrialized nations. Most, or all, of the following ethnonyms probably do not correspond to one community; many are locally or regionally used (sometimes as occupational names), others are used only by group members, and still others are used pejoratively only by outsiders. Most peripatetic nomads have traditions that they originate from South Asia. In India there are said to be home of over two hundred such groups.{{citation needed|date=April 2015}} Many peripatetic groups in Iran, Afghanistan and Turkey still speak dialects of Indo-Aryan, such as the Ghorbati.Nomads in India : proceedings of the National Seminar / edited by P.K. Misra, K.C. MalhotraRao, Aparna (1986). "Peripatetic Minorities in Afghanistan—Image and Identity." In Die ethnischen Gruppen Afghanistan, edited by E. Orywal. Wiesbaden: L. Reichert There is also academic scholarship that connects European Romany groups with India.{{Citation needed|date=February 2024|reason=Cite the mentioned academic scholarship that supports this, then remove "there is also academic scholarship" statement}}

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  • In Pakistan:Customary strangers : new perspectives on peripatetic peoples in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia / edited by Joseph C. Berland and Aparna Rao. Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2004. {{ISBN|0897897714}}
  • Churigar
  • Dom
  • Kanjar
  • Lori
  • Mirasi
  • Qalandar

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  • In Turkey:"Marginal Groups and Itinerants" by Ingvar Savanberg pages 602 to 612 in Ethnic groups in the Republic of Turkey / compiled and edited by Peter Alford Andrews, with the assistance of Rüdiger Benninghaus (Wiesbaden : Dr. Ludwig Reichert, 1989) {{ISBN|3-88226-418-7}}
  • Abdal of Turkey
  • Arabci
  • Bosha
  • Çingene
  • Gäwändi
  • Ghorbati
  • Qeraçi
  • Susmani
  • Tahtacı

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  • In Afghanistan:Rao, Aparna (1986). "Peripatetic Minorities in Afghanistan—Image and Identity." In Die ethnischen Gruppen Afghanistan, edited by E. Orywal. Wiesbaden: L. Reichert
  • Kuchi (Kochai){{Cite web|url=https://matadornetwork.com/read/global-nomadic-communities/|title = 7 nomadic communities that still exist today}}
  • Badyanesin
  • Balatumani
  • Chalu
  • Changar
  • Chighalbf
  • Ghalbelbaf
  • Ghorbat (Qurbat)
  • Herati
  • Jalili
  • Jat
  • Juggi
  • Jola
  • Kouli
  • Kuṭaṭa
  • Lawani
  • Luli Mogat
  • Maskurahi
  • Musalli
  • Nausar
  • Pikraj
  • Qawal
  • Sabzaki
  • Sadu
  • Shadibaz (Shadiwan)
  • Sheikh Mohammadi tribe
  • Noristani
  • Siyahpayak
  • Vangawala (Bangṛiwal/Churifrosh)

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Popular misconceptions

=Manchus, Jurchens and related groups=

The Manchus are mistaken by some as nomadic peoplePamela Crossley, The Manchus, p. 3 when in fact they were not nomads,Patricia Buckley Ebrey et al., [https://books.google.com/books?id=QfkWAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA271 East Asia: A Cultural, Social, and Political History], 3rd edition, p. 271Frederic Wakeman, Jr., [https://books.google.com/books?id=8nXLwSG2O8AC&pg=PA24 The Great Enterprise: The Manchu Reconstruction of Imperial Order in the Seventeenth Century], p. 24, note 1 but instead were a sedentary agricultural people who lived in fixed villages, farmed crops, practiced hunting and mounted archery.

The Sushen used flint headed wooden arrows, farmed, hunted, and fished, and lived in caves and trees.[https://www.jstor.org/stable/2719229?seq=8 Huang 1990] p. 246. The cognates Sushen or Jichen (稷真) again appear in the Shan Hai Jing and Book of Wei during the dynastic era referring to Tungusic Mohe tribes of the far northeast.{{cite web|url=http://zh.wikisource.org/wiki/%E9%80%B8%E5%91%A8%E6%9B%B8#.E7.8E.8B.E6.9C.83|title=逸周書|publisher=|accessdate=18 March 2015}} The Mohe enjoyed eating pork, practiced pig farming extensively, and were mainly sedentary,[https://books.google.com/books?id=KHwPAAAAYAAJ&q=The+Mohe+tribes+can+be+characterized+as+having+mostly+a+sedentary+way+of+life.+Pig+breeding+was+the+main+branch+of+their+stockraising+(the+same+can+be+said+about+the+Sushen).+The+richest+PROLEGOMENA+TO+MANCHU+STUDIES+13. Gorelova 2002], pp. 13-4. and also used both pig and dog skins for coats. They were predominantly farmers and grew soybean, wheat, millet, and rice, in addition to engaging in hunting.[https://books.google.com/books?id=KHwPAAAAYAAJ&q=raising+(the+same+can+be+said+about+the+Sushen).+The+richest+of+them+possessed+large+flocks+of+pigs,+which+mounted+to+hundreds+of+heads.+They+liked+eating+pork,+and+pig-skins+were+used+by+them+for+sewing+winter+coats+(again+like+the+Sushen).+The+Mohes+also+bred+dogs,+from+whose+skins+they+sewed+fur+coats.....The+Mohe+were+mainly+engaged+in+developed+agriculture,+as+they+used+a+plough,+pushing+it+in+front,+and+pairs+of+horses+as+drought+power.+They+sowed+wheat,+millet,+rice+plants,+and+soybean,+and+used+rice+for+preparing+special+liqueur.&dq=raising+(the+same+can+be+said+about+the+Sushen).+The+richest+of+them+possessed+large+flocks+of+pigs,+which+mounted+to+hundreds+of+heads.+They+liked+eating+pork,+and+pig-skins+were+used+by+them+for+sewing+winter+coats+(again+like+the+Sushen).+The+Mohes+also+bred+dogs,+from+whose+skins+they+sewed+fur+coats.....The+Mohe+were+mainly+engaged+in+developed+agriculture,+as+they+used+a+plough,+pushing+it+in+front,+and+pairs+of+horses+as+drought+power.+They+sowed+wheat,+millet,+rice+plants,+and+soybean,+and+used+rice+for+preparing+special+liqueur.&hl=en&sa=X&ei=IxbkU8C5K-jIsASOgYLACA&ved=0CBsQ6AEwAA Gorelova 2002], p. 14.

The Jurchens were sedentary,[http://pandora.cii.wwu.edu/vajda/ea210/manchu2.html Vajda] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100601205357/http://pandora.cii.wwu.edu/vajda/ea210/manchu2.html |date=2010-06-01 }}. settled farmers with advanced agriculture. They farmed grain and millet as their cereal crops, grew flax, and raised oxen, pigs, sheep, and horses.[https://books.google.com/books?id=ST6TRNuWmHsC&pg=PA416 Sinor 1996], p. 416. Their farming way of life was very different from the pastoral nomadism of the Mongols and the Khitan on the steppes.[https://books.google.com/books?id=iN9Tdfdap5MC&pg=PA217 Twitchett, Franke, Fairbank 1994], p. 217.[https://books.google.com/books?id=kG45gi7E3hsC&pg=PA112 de Rachewiltz 1993], p. 112. "At the most", the Jurchen could only be described as "semi-nomadic" while the majority of them were sedentary.

The Manchu way of life (economy) was described as agricultural, farming crops and raising animals on farms.[https://books.google.com/books?id=glU0vte5gSkC&pg=PA828 Wurm 1996], p. 828. Manchus practiced Slash-and-burn agriculture in the areas north of Shenyang.[https://www.jstor.org/stable/3985584?seq=2 Reardon-Anderson 2000], p. 504. The Haixi Jurchens were "semi-agricultural, the Jianzhou Jurchens and Maolian (毛怜) Jurchens were sedentary, while hunting and fishing was the way of life of the "Wild Jurchens".[https://books.google.com/books?id=tyhT9SZRLS8C&pg=PA266 Mote, Twitchett & Fairbank 1988], p. 266. Han Chinese society resembled that of the sedentary Jianzhou and Maolian, who were farmers.[https://books.google.com/books?id=tVhvh6ibLJcC&pg=PA258 Twitchett & Mote 1998], p. 258. Hunting, archery on horseback, horsemanship, livestock raising, and sedentary agriculture were all practiced by the Jianzhou Jurchens as part of their culture.[https://www.jstor.org/stable/2646525?seq=6 Rawski 1996], p. 834. In spite of the fact that the Manchus practiced archery on horse back and equestrianism, the Manchu's immediate progenitors practiced sedentary agriculture.[https://books.google.com/books?id=5iN5J9G76h0C&pg=PA43 Rawski 1998], p. 43. Although the Manchus also partook in hunting, they were sedentary.Thomas T. Allsen 2011, [https://books.google.com/books?id=WFls6zdc40QC&pg=PA215 p. 215.] Their primary mode of production was farming while they lived in villages, forts, and towns surrounded by walls. Farming was practiced by their Jurchen Jin predecessors.{{cite book|title=Transactions, American Philosophical Society (vol. 36, Part 1, 1946)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=g08LAAAAIAAJ&q=Marriages+between+Manchu+girls+and+Chinese+deserters+were+officially+promoted+during+the+early+years+of+the+dynasty.&pg=PA10|publisher=American Philosophical Society|isbn=978-1-4223-7719-2|pages=10–}}{{cite book|author1=Karl August Wittfogel|author2=Chia-shêng Fêng|title=History of Chinese Society: Liao, 907-1125|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=c35CAAAAYAAJ&q=Marriages+between+Manchu+girls+and+Chinese+deserters+were+officially+promoted+during+the+early+years+of+the+dynasty.|year=1949|publisher=American Philosophical Society|page=10}}

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| quote = “建州毛怜则渤海大氏遗孽，乐住种，善缉纺，饮食服用，皆如华人，自长白山迤南，可拊而治也。" "The (people of) Chien-chou and Mao-lin [YLSL always reads Mao-lien] are the descendants of the family Ta of Po-hai. They love to be sedentary and sow, and they are skilled in spinning and weaving. As for food, clothing and utensils, they are the same as (those used by) the Chinese. (Those living) south of the Ch'ang-pai mountain are apt to be soothed and governed."

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| source = — 据魏焕《皇明九边考》卷二《辽东镇边夷考》{{cite web |url=http://www.artx.cn/artx/lishi/20422.html |title=明代汉族与女真族的马市贸易 |author=萧国亮 |date=2007-01-24 |website=艺术中国(ARTX.cn) |page=1 |publisher= |accessdate=25 July 2014 |archive-date=2014-07-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140729230931/http://www.artx.cn/artx/lishi/20422.html |url-status=dead }} Translation from Sino-J̌ürčed relations during the Yung-Lo period, 1403-1424 by Henry Serruys[https://books.google.com/books?id=9YETAAAAIAAJ&q=chien+chou+mao+lien+sedentary Serruys 1955], p. 22.

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For political reasons, the Jurchen leader Nurhaci chose variously to emphasize either differences or similarities in lifestyles with other peoples like the Mongols.[https://books.google.com/books?id=J4L-_cjmSqoC&pg=PA127 Perdue 2009], p. 127. Nurhaci said to the Mongols that "The languages of the Chinese and Koreans are different, but their clothing and way of life is the same. It is the same with us Manchus (Jušen) and Mongols. Our languages are different, but our clothing and way of life is the same." Later Nurhaci indicated that the bond with the Mongols was not based in any real shared culture. It was for pragmatic reasons of "mutual opportunism", since Nurhaci said to the Mongols: "You Mongols raise livestock, eat meat and wear pelts. My people till the fields and live on grain. We two are not one country and we have different languages."[https://books.google.com/books?id=hi2THl2FUZ4C&pg=PA31 Peterson 2002], p. 31.

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