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Title:As pastoralists settle: social, health, and economic consequences of pastoral sedentarization in Marsabit District, Kenya
Editors:Fratkin, Elliot M.ISNI
Roth, Eric AbellaISNI
Year:2004
Pages:280
Language:English
Series:Studies in human ecology and adaptation (ISSN 1574-0501)
City of publisher:New York
Publisher:Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers
ISBN:030648594X; 0306485958; 0306485966
Geographic term:Kenya
Subjects:Rendille
sedentarization
Abstract:This book examines from an interdisciplinary perspective pastoral sedentarization in Marsabit District in northern Kenya, an isolated and arid region which contains multiple pastoral groups, including Rendille, Samburu, Ariaal, Borana and Gabra peoples. The contributions delineate the consequences, both positive and negative, of settlement for formerly nomadic pastoral populations. An introduction and a chapter on the setting by Eric Abella Roth and Elliot Fratkin is followed by contributions on sedentarization and conflict (John G. Galaty), ecological and economic consequences of reduced mobility (H. Jürgen Schwartz), the contradictory processes of pastoral sedentarization in northern Kenya (John McPeak and Peter D. Little), the sedentarization process, motives and welfare changes (Wario R. Adano and Karen Witsenburg), the transition to agriculture for Rendille and Ariaal pastoralists (Kevin Smith), Rendille women's changing economic roles with pastoral sedentarization (Elliot Fratkin and Kevin Smith), the effects of sedentarization on children's growth and nutrition among Ariaal and Rendille (Eric Abella Roth, Martha A. Nathan and Elliot Fratkin), health and morbidity among Rendille pastoralist children (Martha A. Nathan et al.), maternal dietary and health consequences of sedentarization (Masako Fujita et al.), 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). [ASC Leiden abstract]
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