Research Catalog

Title

As pastoralists settle : social, health, and economic consequences of the pastoral sedentarization in Marsabit District, Kenya / edited by Elliot Fratkin and Eric Abella Roth.

Publication

New York : Kluwer Academic Publishers, c2005.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Fratkin, Elliot M.
• Roth, Eric Abella.

Description

x, 280 p. : ill., maps; 25 cm.

Series Statement

Studies in human ecology and adaptation

Uniform Title

Studies in human ecology and adaptation.

Subject

• Nomads > Kenya > Marsabit District > Sedentarisation
• Marsabit District (Kenya) > Economic conditions
• Marsabit District (Kenya) > Social conditions

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction : the social, health, and economic consequences of pastoral sedentarization in Marsabit District, Northern Kenya / Eric Abella Roth and Elliot Fratkin -- The setting : pastoral sedentarization in Marsabit District, Northern Kenya / Elliot Fratkin and Eric Abella Roth -- Time, terror, and pastoral inertia / John G. Galaty -- Ecological and economic consequences of reduced mobility in pastoral livestock production systems / H. Jürgen Schwarz -- Cursed if you do, cursed if you don't : the contradictory processes of pastoral sedentarization in Northern Kenya / John McPeak and Peter D. Little -- Once nomads settle : assessing the process, motives, and welfare changes of settlements on Mount Marsabit / Wario R. Adano and Karen Witsenburg -- From milk to maize : the transition to agriculture for Rendille and Ariaal pastoralists / Kevin Smith -- Women's changing economic roles with pastoral sedentarization / Elliot Fratkin and Kevin Smith -- The effects of pastoral sedentarization on children's growth and nutrition among Ariaal and Rendille in Northern Kenya / Eric Abella Roth, Martha A. Nathan, and Elliot Fratkin -- Health and morbidity among Rendille pastoralist children / Martha A. Nathan ... [et al.] -- Sedentarization and seasonality : maternal dietary and health consequences in Ariaal and Rendille communities in Northern Kenya / Masako Fujita ... [et al.] -- Development, modernization, and medicalization : influences on the changing nature of female "circumcision" in Rendille society / Bettina Shell-Duncan, Walter Obungu Obiero, and Leunita Auko Muruli -- Female education in a sedentary Ariaal Rendille community / Eric Abella Roth and Elizabeth N. Ngugi.

Call Number

Sc E 06-187

ISBN

• 030648594X (HB)
• 0306485958 (PB)

LCCN

2004042174

OCLC

55085918

Title

As pastoralists settle : social, health, and economic consequences of the pastoral sedentarization in Marsabit District, Kenya / edited by Elliot Fratkin and Eric Abella Roth.

Imprint

New York : Kluwer Academic Publishers, c2005.

Series

Studies in human ecology and adaptation

Studies in human ecology and adaptation.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Fratkin, Elliot M.

Roth, Eric Abella.

Research Call Number

Sc E 06-187