Shinya Konaka

University of Shizuoka · School of International Relations

This study examines the housekeeping strategies in Samburu households in North Central Kenya during the mid-1990s to clarify their pastoral mode of consumption. This mode, prominent in Samburu society at the time, is a combination of subsistence and market economies. The study analysed housekeeping strategy data from 1995 to 1996 for a rich and a p...

This article explores an overlooked aspect of the 'resilience of pastoralism' in crises through an ethnographic case study of a series of conflicts between the Samburu and the Pokot in Kenya that erupted in 2004. Emery Roe's concepts of reliability professionals and real-time management of pastoralists are utilised as theoretical frameworks for thi...

This article introduces and provides an overview of the main theme of this vol- ume and explores the possibility of localizing humanitarian assistance frameworks with regard to East African pastoralists. It is incorrect to depict the livelihood of East African pastoralists without considering humanitarian assistance and its secondary effects. Howev...

This article explores the articulation sphere of the material culture of East African pastoralists and the non-food items of their humanitarian assistance. The non-food items of humanitarian assistance have never been considered from the viewpoint of the present material culture of pastoralists. To explore this gap, exhaustive commodity surveys wer...

This study intends to show an anthropological perspective toward the post-globalization era with the ethnographic case study on internally displaced persons (IDPs) in East African Pastoral Societies. The IDPs has created the minute local flow of democratic power, reciprocal distribution, and local peace building effort with ICT against the national...

In recent years, besides the sedentarization, the use of assault rifles and mobile phones brought another turning point to the spatiality of nomadic pastoralists in East Africa. This paper explores transformations of spatiality of pastoralists with an ethnographic case study in East Africa. The spatiality of African nomadic pastoralists has been ma...

This study explores the relationship between the food security and the community security, in the meaning of national security, under the bad governance with the examination of the conflict case in East African pastoral societies. I note here that I must use pseudonyms to protect the informants whose human rights have been severely violated. The co...

Kuria Cattle Raiders: Violence and Vigilantism on the Tanzania/Kenya Frontier. Michael L. Fleisher. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000. 198 pp., illustrations, tables, maps, appendix, bibliography, index.

The first periodic livestock market in Samburu District was established in Sugutra Marmar town in 1991. The aim of this study is to clarify how the local pastoralists whose culture can be characterized by so-called "Cattle Complex" reacted to the emergence of the livestock market. I examined 362 cases of the trade at the livestock market, with spec...

In this paper I describe a micro-history of a hamlet of the Garri in northern Kenya and then try to clarify some characteristics of their society. The Garri are a Cushitic speaking pastoral nomads who live in the Ethiopia-Kenya-Somalia borderlands. They frequently migrate looking for pastures and water. I spent about six months in the ‘Mwalim’ Moha...

Good to Eat, Good to Live with: Nomads and Animals in Northern Eurasia and Africa / edited by Florian Stammler, Hiroki Takakura. 2010 (Northeast Asian Study Series 11)