Changing communal land tenure in an East African pastoral system: Institutions and Socio-Economic transformations among the Pokot of NW Kenya

Zeitschrift fur Ethnologie

Volumn 133, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 301-322

  Bollig, Michael ^a   Österle, Matthias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Common pool resource management; Kenya; Land tenure; Pastoralism; Spatial mobility

Indexed keywords

EID: 58149293283     PISSN: 00442666     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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