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Elliot Fratkin


Anthropology


Phone:

413-585-3338

Building:

Wright Hall 107

E-mail:

efratkin@smith.edu

BACKGROUND

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

Selected publications

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