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Sara Handa at Denman Undergraduate Research Forum
Sara Handa presented her preliminary results of her study of the mobility of herds under contract at the annual Denman Undergraduate Research Forum on March 28, 2013. Sara is…
Paper on livestock transfers published in Human Ecology
My article on livestock transfers and human careers is published in the April issue of Human Ecology. The cover shows the picture that was selected as top photo in the photo…
Paper published in Pastoralism
The paper that is based on the research of Jessica Healy, a former undergraduate in our anthropology program, has been published in the journal Pastoralism: Research, Policy and Practice…
Challenges and opportunities in interdisciplinary collaborations
In September 2012 a number of us participated in the All Scientists Meeting (ASM) of the Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) network to make the case for the integration of anthropology in…
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.
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…
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…