Editing Nomad (section)

=== Perception ===
Ann Marie Kroll Lerner states that the pastoral nomads were viewed as "invading, destructive, and altogether antithetical to civilizing, sedentary societies" during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. According to Lerner, they are rarely accredited as "a civilizing force".<ref>{{Cite thesis |type=Ph.D. |title=Iron Age Nomads of the Urals: Interpreting Sauro–Sarmatian and Sargat Identities |year=2006 |page=34 |publisher=Department of Anthropology, [[Michigan State University]] |section=History of Nomad Studies in Anthropology: Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries |first=Ann Marie Kroll |last=Lerner |oclc=1084037447 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=256YglLwBkUC&q=%22History+of+Nomad+Studies+in+Anthropology%22}}</ref>

[[Allan Hill]] and Sara Randall observe that western authors have looked for "romance and mystery, as well as the repository of laudable characteristics believed lost in the West, such as independence, stoicism in the face of physical adversity, and a strong sense of loyalty to family and to tribe" in nomadic pastoralist societies. Hill and Randall observe that nomadic pastoralists are stereotypically seen by the settled populace in Africa and [[Middle East]] as "aimless wanderers, immoral, promiscuous and disease-ridden" peoples. According to Hill and Randall, both of these perceptions "misrepresent the reality".<ref>{{cite book |title=Population, Health and Nutrition in the Sahel: Issues in the Welfare of Selected West African Communities |year=2012 |pages=21–40 |publisher=[[Routledge]] |editor-first=Allan G. |editor-last=Hill |chapter=Issues in the Study of the Demography of Sahelian Pastoralists and Agro–Pastoralists |first1=Allan G. |last1=Hill |first2=Sara |last2=Randall |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=N_T_O_8XmdQC&pg=PA21 |isbn=978-1136882845}}</ref>