As Pastoralists Settle [recurso electrónico] : Social, Health, and Economic Consequences of Pastoral Sedentarization in Marsabit District, Kenya / edited by Elliot Fratkin, Eric Abella Roth.

Introduction: The Social, Health, and Economic Consequences of Pastoral Sedentarization in Marsabit District, Northern Kenya -- The Setting: Pastoral Sedentarization in Marsabit District, Northern Kenya -- Time, Terror, and Pastoral Inertia: Sedentarization and Conflict in Northern Kenya -- Ecological and Economic Consequences of Reduced Mobility in Pastoral Livestock Production Systems -- Cursed if you do, Cursed if You Don't: The contradictory Processes of Pastoral Sedentarization in Northern Kenya -- Once Nomads Settle: Assessing the Process, Motives, and Welfare Changes of Settlements on Mount Marsabit -- From Milk to Maize: The Transition to Agriculture for Rendille and Ariaal Pastoralists -- Women's Changing Economic Roles with Pastoral Sedentarization: Varying Strategies in Alternate Rendille Communities -- The Effects of Pastoral Sedentarization on Children's Growth and Nutrition among Ariaal and Rendille in Northern Kenya -- Health and Morbidity among Rendille Pastoralist Children: Effects of Sedentarization -- Sedentarization and Seasonality: Maternal Dietary and Health Consequences in Ariaal and Rendille Communities in Northern Kenya -- Development, Modernization, and Medicalization: Influences on the Changing Nature of Female "Circumcision" in Rendille Society -- Female Education in a Sedentary Ariaal Rendille Community: Paternal Decision-Making and Biosocial Pathways.

Throughout the world's arid regions, and particularly in northern and eastern Africa, formerly nomadic pastoralists are undergoing a transition to settled life. Pastoral sedentarization represents a response to multiple factors, including loss of livestock due to drought and famine, increased competition for range land due to growing populations, land privatization or appropriation for commercial farms, ranches, and tourist game parks, and to fear of increasing violence, ethnic conflict, and civil war. Although pastoral settlement is often encouraged by international development agencies and national governments as solutions to food insecurity, poor health care and problems of governance, the social, economic and health concomitants of sedentism are not inevitably beneficial. Biosocial studies presented in this volume, for example, point to greater nutritional and health benefits among nomadic livestock keepers, but increased opportunities in education, employment, and food security in towns.