It is often difficult to identify ethnic groups in the archaeological record, yet archaeology has
much to contribute to understanding the long-term social and political dynamics of ethnicity …

Elephants have fascinated humans for millennia. Aristotle wrote of them with awe; Hannibal
used them in warfare; and John Donne called the elephant “Nature's greatest masterpiece …

Résumé En 1991, sous la pression de protestataires internes et de donateurs, le Kenya à
parti unique a adopté le multipartisme. La libéralisation politique a précipité les …

This book tells the sweeping story of the role that East African savannas played in human
evolution, how people, livestock, and wildlife interact in the region today, and how these …

Over centuries, African pastoralist societies have crafted institutions that enable them to
survive in their harsh, semi-arid environment. Effectively managing communally held land …

Modernization in Africa has created new problems as well as new freedoms. Multiparty
democracy, resource privatization and changing wealth relationships, have not always …

This book focuses on the strategic manipulation of ethnic identity by the Mukogodo of Kenya.
It is about how Mukogodo people changed their way of life to a radically different one, that is …

Since early March 1999, deadly confrontations among pastoralists and government forces in
northeastern Uganda's Karamoja region have escalated. Raiding and banditry are long …

How people engaged with materials such as clay or stone, why people dug features such as
pits, why they decorated their bodies, or treated their dead in certain ways, were all …

Until fairly recently, archaeological research has been directed primarily toward the centers
of societies rather than their perimeters. Yet frontiers and borders, precisely because they …