艾略特Fratkin

艾略特Fratkin received his bachelor’s from the University of Pennsylvania, master’s from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and doctorate from the Catholic University of America, all in cultural anthropology. His research focuses on life and social change among nomadic pastoralists—人 who live and move with their domestic livestock and who are found largely 在 arid regions of the world. Much of Fratkin’s work focuses on Ariaal pastoralists of northern 肯尼亚. The Ariaal 人 are a cultural mix of two larger groups, cattle-keeping Samburu and camel-keeping Rendille, and are related to the larger cluster of Maasai 人s of East Africa. Fratkin's initial research focused on Ariaal social organization, cultural ecology and ritual life.

在20世纪80年代, Fratkin turned his attention to issues of development and change, particularly focusing on what happened to 肯尼亚n pastoralists during periods of drought and famine. During that time the Ariaal and Rendille communities became recipients of humanitarian relief from many international organizations, including the Catholic Relief 服务, 牛津饥荒救济委员会, Save the Children and World Vision. One consequence of those changes was a large-scale settling of former pastoralists, particularly poor 人 who did not have enough livestock to subsist as they had before. 在20世纪90年代, Fratkin participated in a three-year study that examined the health and nutrition effects of the settling of Ariaal and Rendille 人. He collaborated with his wife, 马蒂·内森, 医生, 埃里克·罗斯, an anthropologist at the University of Victoria, 加拿大. They found that settled children had higher levels of malnutrition and illnesses than the pastoralists, which they attributed to a lack of milk animals 在 settled communities.

2002年和2003年, Fratkin served as a consultant with the World Bank Inspection Panel, which was investigating complaints about the building of the Chad-Cameroon oil pipeline. 2003年，他是一名美国军官.S. Fulbright Scholar teaching at the University of Asmara, Eritrea, and in 2011–12, he served as a U.S. Fulbright Scholar teaching anthropology at Hawassa University, Ethiopia. As the chair of the Commission on Nomadic Peoples of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences from 2013–2018, he has visited pastoral polulations in Mongolia, 博茨瓦纳, 埃塞俄比亚和马里. He is currently co-editor of the 非洲研究评论, the journal of the African Studies Association. 2013 - 2018之间, he was Co-editor of the African Studies Review, the journal of the African Studies Association.

在澳门葡京博彩软件, Fratkin served on the steering committee of Smith's Environmental Science and Policy Program, African Studies Program and the Global South Development Program, and was a faculty adviser for the Five Colleges Certificate in African Studies and the Culture, 健康, 科学项目.

读Fratkin的 博客 about teaching and doing research in Ethiopia.

演讲

Maasai: A Novel of Love, War, and Witchcraft in 19th Century East Africa, Department of Anthropology Book Discussion2021年4月5日.

格温多林米. Carter Endowed Lecture in African Studies: “Africa: The Good, The Bad, The Unexpected,” 2013.

选择的书

Maasai: A Novel of Love, War, and Witchcraft in 19th Century East Africa, Africa World Press, 2020.

Laibon: An Anthropologist's Journey with Samburu Diviners in 肯尼亚阿尔塔米拉出版社，2012年.

Ariaal Pastoralists of 肯尼亚: Studying Pastoralism, Drought, and Development in Africa's Arid Lands皮尔森出版社，2004年.

As Pastoralists Settle: Social, 健康, and Economic Consequences of the Pastoral Sedentarization in Marsabit District, 肯尼亚, 艾略特Fratkin and Eric Abella Roth (editors), Springer, 2005.

选定的出版物

"East African Pastoralism in Transition: Maasai, Boran, and Rendille," 非洲研究评论， 2001.

"The Laibon Diviner and Healer Among Samburu Pastoralists of 肯尼亚," in 占卜与治疗, The University of Arizona Press, 2004.

"Pastoral Sedentarization and Its Effects on Children's Diet, 健康, and Growth Among Rendille of Northern 肯尼亚," 人类生态学, 2004.

"Sustainability and Pastoral Livelihoods: Lessons from East African Maasai and Mongolia," 人类组织, 2003.

"Traditional Medicine and Concepts of Healing Among Samburu Pastoralists of 肯尼亚," 民族生物学杂志, 1996.

"Ethiopia’s Pastoralist Policies: Development, Displacement, and Resettlement." 游牧民族, 2014.

"The Samburu laibon’s sorcery and the death of Theodore Powys in colonial 肯尼亚," Journal of Eastern African Studies, 2015.