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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 research…
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…
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…
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 the…
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
The Future of Pastoralism Conference was an international conference held in Addis Ababa on 21-23 March 2011. The organizers write: "The future of pastoralism in Africa is uncertain and…
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…