ELLIOT FRATKIN

Phone: 413-585-3338

Building: Wright Hall 107

E-mail: efratkin@email.smith.edu

Professor Fratkin’s research focuses on land use and ecology of arid lands, particularly the adaptation of livestock keeping peoples in East Africa. He has written on ecology, economy, health, and social change among East African pastoralist societies, including the Ariaal Rendille, Samburu, and Maasai of Kenya, and recently on Mongolia.

Courses

Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
Africa: Population, Health and Environment Issues
Seminar: Topics in Development Anthropology
Economy, Ecology and Society
Anthropology of Development

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