Spooner, Brian2023-05-222023-05-221971-07-012016-10-18https://repository.upenn.edu/handle/20.500.14332/1506The anthropological study of nomadism should be approached via cultural ecology and by the generative method. A preliminary generative model is presented, consisting of a series of seven rules. The first five are derived from the literature and are concerned with group formation. The last two are proposed by the writer with a view to making the articulation between group formation, social ecology and social organisation.AnthropologySocial and Behavioral SciencesArticle