As Pastoralists Settle Social, Health, and Economic Consequences of Pastoral Sedentarization in Marsabit District, Kenya /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Fratkin, Elliot (Editor), Roth, Eric Abella (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2005.
• Series: Studies in Human Ecology and Adaptation, 1
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Public health.; Environmental management.; Population.; Anthropology.; Social Sciences.; Population Economics.; Environmental Management.; Public Health.

The Social, Health, and Economic Consequences of Pastoral Sedentarization in Marsabit District, Northern Kenya ERICABELLA ROTH AND ELLIOT FRATKIN 1. INTRODUCTION Formerly nomadic livestock-keeping pastoralists have settled in many regions of the world in the past century. Some groups, including thos...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: The Social, Health, and Economic Consequences of Pastoral Sedentarization in Marsabit District, Northern Kenya
• The Setting: Pastoral Sedentarization in Marsabit District, Northern Kenya
• Time, Terror, and Pastoral Inertia: Sedentarization and Conflict in Northern Kenya
• Ecological and Economic Consequences of Reduced Mobility in Pastoral Livestock Production Systems
• Cursed if you do, Cursed if You Don’t: The contradictory Processes of Pastoral Sedentarization in Northern Kenya
• Once Nomads Settle: Assessing the Process, Motives, and Welfare Changes of Settlements on Mount Marsabit
• From Milk to Maize: The Transition to Agriculture for Rendille and Ariaal Pastoralists
• Women’s Changing Economic Roles with Pastoral Sedentarization: Varying Strategies in Alternate Rendille Communities
• The Effects of Pastoral Sedentarization on Children’s Growth and Nutrition among Ariaal and Rendille in Northern Kenya
• Health and Morbidity among Rendille Pastoralist Children: Effects of Sedentarization
• Sedentarization and Seasonality: Maternal Dietary and Health Consequences in Ariaal and Rendille Communities in Northern Kenya
• Development, Modernization, and Medicalization: Influences on the Changing Nature of Female "Circumcision" in Rendille Society
• Female Education in a Sedentary Ariaal Rendille Community: Paternal Decision-Making and Biosocial Pathways.