As Pastoralists Settle Social, Health, and Economic Consequences of Pastoral Sedentarization in Marsabit District, Kenya STUDIES IN HUMAN ECOLOGY AND ADAPTATION Series Editors: Daniel G. Bates Hunter College, New York, co-editor Ludomir R. Lozny Hunter College, New York, co-editor Editorial Board: Arun Agrawal, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan ● Fikret Berkes, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada ● Michael Dove, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut ● Katherine Homewood, University College London, London, England ● J. Terrence McCabe, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado ● Christine Padoch, New York Botanical Garden, Bronx, New York ● David Pimentel, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York AS PASTORALISTS SETTLE Social, Health, and Economic Consequences of Pastoral Sedentarization in Marsabit District, Kenya Edited by Elliot Fratkin and Eric Abella Roth A Continuation Order Plan is available for this series. A continuation order will bring delivery of each new volume immediately upon publication. Volumes are billed only upon actual shipment. For further information please contact the publisher. As Pastoralists Settle Social, Health, and Economic Consequences of Pastoral Sedentarization in Marsabit District, Kenya Edited by Elliot Fratkin Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts and Eric Abella Roth University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada Kluwer Academic Publishers ● New York and London New York, Boston, Dordrecht, London, Moscow Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data As pastoralists settle : social, health, and economic consequences of the pastoral sedentarization in Marsabit District, Kenya / edited by Elliot Fratkin, Eric Abella Roth. p. cm. — (Studies in human ecology) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-306-48594-X (hb.) — ISBN 0-306-48596-6 (eBook) 1. Marsabit District (Kenya) — Economic conditions. 2. Marsabit District (Kenya) — Social conditions. 3. Nomads — Kenya — Marsabit District — Sedentarisation. I. Fratkin, Elliot M. II. Roth, Eric Abella. III. Series. HC865.Z7M373 2004 306.3⬘49⬘0967624—dc22 2004042174 ISBN HB: 0-306-48594-X PB: 0-306-48595-8 e-Book: 0-306-48596-6 © 2005 Kluwer Academic / Plenum Publishers, New York 233 Spring Street, New York, New York 10013 http//www.kluweronline.com 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 A C.I.P. record for this book is available from the Library of Congress All rights reserved No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording, or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher, with the exception of any material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Permissions for books published in Europe:
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