All right so I'm not super well-read in this area but I did a scattershot self-guided reading trying to understand early ancient Mesopotamia in my undergrad. Of the dozens (and dozens and dozens...) of sources I consulted the most interesting was a short article by a woman (I think in the handbook of ancient near eastern history or something like that, I'm not sure) basically very cantankerously pointing out tha the footprint of pastoralism is seriously faint in the archaeological record and we probably seriously underestimate the extent to which civilisations like ancient Mesopotamia were also underscored by and based on pastoralism. I'm aware of famous ethnographies of pastoralist communities (the Nuer etc) but what are/are there important works theorising pastoralism per se and what it can tell us about human history and human ecology?

I'm aware of a few good ones, say, Tom Boellstorff's Coming of Age in Second Life, Gabriella Coleman's work on Anonymous, and Daniel Miller's Why We Post series.

But I feel like these examples are somewhat dated now. Curious to learn about any good ethnorgaphies on this topic from the last 2-3 years, especially from the COVID/post-COVID era. Cheers!