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Open access, open systems

Our paper "Open Access, Open Systems: Pastoral Management of Common-Pool Resources in the Chad Basin" is published online first in the journal Human Ecology.

Abstract. The discussion about…

National Anthropological Magazine

In Autumn 2012 I taught a course on the anthropology of Africa, the goal of which was to come to an understanding of how anthropologists study and write about the complexity of contemporary Africa…

2012 AAA photo contest

My photo “Striking a Herder’s Pose” was selected by AAA members as the top photo in the People Category in the 2012 AAA Photo Contest. Photo caption: We have been studying pastoral mobility in the…

Laibon reading by Elliot Fratkin

Elliot Fratkin, Professor at Smith College, read excerpts from his recent book “Laibon: An anthropologist's Journey with Samburu Diviners in Kenya” and answered questions about his long-term…

Ecological Anthropologists at ASM explore contributions to LTER

Together with other ecological anthropologists who participated in the All Scientists Meeting (ASM) of the Long-Tern Ecological Research (LTER) Network we wrote a piece about our experiences at…

Risk and Social Change in an African Rural Economy

My review of Risk and Social Change in an African Rural Economy is out in the journal Pastoralism: Research, Policy and Practice. Pastoralism is an open access journal published by Springer.

The future of pastoralism

Glenn School Colloquium Series

In May 2010 I gave a talk in the Glenn School Colloquium Series about the implications for pastoral development of our research on management of open access to common-pool resources. You can watch…

Funding from NSF CNH Program

We received funding from the NSF Dynamics of Coupled Natural and Human Systems (CNH) program for our project Exploring social, ecological, and hydrological regime shifts in the Logone…