Ongoing ethnographic projects:
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Much of my research since 1991 has been with Oromo-speaking Gabra, who are nomadic pastoralists in northern Kenya and southern Ethiopia. This photograph shows a Gabra community that is about to move its camp. |
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Last year I began research in Asheville, N.C., to study the way children understand their community, and use places in their neighborhoods to understand more abstract ideas such as race, class, and identity. |