East African landscapes today are the result of the cumulative effects of climate and land-
use change over millennial timescales. In this review, we compile archaeological and …

Pastoralist societies face more threats to their way of life now than at any previous time.
Population growth; loss of herding lands to private farms, ranches, game parks, and urban …

What happens to marginalized groups from Africa when they ally with the indigenous
peoples' movement? Who claims to be indigenous and why? Dorothy L. Hodgson explores …

Although the comparative method has been applied to a range of African language families,
these have received little coverage in general textbooks. The present monograph was …

The principle of local support states that protected areas cannot survive without the support
of their neighbours. It is the dominant motif of much writing about community conservation …

Farmer–herder conflicts in Africa are often presented as being driven by 'environmental
scarcity'. Political ecologists, however, argue that these conflicts should be analysed within a …

This comparative ethnographic study of risk-related strategies is unique because of its
comparative dimension in the research, the author's address of risk and consequent societal …

Livestock raiding among northern Kenya's pastoralists has changed profoundly in the last
decades. Fought with modern weaponry and often extreme violence, raiding is increasingly …

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 …

Maasai people in East Africa are attempting to craft new sustainable livelihoods in response
to increasing population pressure, a fluctuating livestock population, reductions in grazing …