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<h2>Elliot Fratkin, Ph.D., Associate Professor</h2>

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<img src="marsabit.jpg" width=350 height=250 hspace=10 vspace=10

align=left> Dr. Fratkin received his B.A. from

the

University of Pennsylvania, Masters of Philosophy from the London

School

of Economics and Political Science, and PhD in Anthropology

from the Catholic University of America (1987). His

research focuses on economy, society, health, and social change among East

African pastoralist societies including the Ariaal Rendille, Samburu, and

Maasai of Kenya. Currently, Dr. Fratkin is studying the social and health

consequences of the settling of former nomads in northern Kenya, and is

completing a book about traditional healers (Laibons) among Maasai

speaking

peoples.

Dr. Fratkin’s publications include the 1997 Annual Review of

Anthropology chapter on Pastoralism and Development, the

monograph Ariaal Pastoralists of Northern Kenya in the Cultural

Survival Series on Change and Development

(1998, Allyn and Bacon Publishers), and the co-edited volume

African Pastoralist Systems (1994, Lynne Rienner Publishers).

He is also the co-author with

Daniel G. Bates of the college textbook Cultural

Anthropology, second edition (1999, Allyn and Bacon

Publishers).

Dr. Fratkin’s courses include the Introduction to Cultural Anthropology,

the upper level courses Anthropology of Development, Economy, Ecology

and Society, and the senior seminar in Population and Environment.

Dr. Fratkin also serves on the steering committee of

Smith's Environmental Sciences Program and is current chair of the Five College African Studies Council.

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