Professor
Ph.D. University of Chicago, 1977
Professor Galaty's research interests include pastoralism, rangeland development, wildlife and community conservation; legal anthropology, property and land tenure; social conflict and violence; nationalism, ethnicity and identity; ritual and age-organization, psychological anthropology; culture and semiotics, ethnohistory; eastern Africa.
Representative Publications:
2025 Towards a Deep History of Cattle Herding and Symbolism: New Perspectives from Ethnoarchaeology, Archaeology and Zooarchaeology (Elena Garcea, Julia Budka, Salima Ikram, John Galaty, and Shayla Monroe), NY: Springer/Nature.
2021 Modern Mobility in East Africa: Pastoral responses to rangeland fragmentation, enclosure and settlement, In Lands of the Future: Anthropological Perspectives on Pastoralism, Land Deals and Tropes of Modernity in Eastern Africa, Edited by Echi Christina Gabbert, Fana Gebresenbet, John G. Galaty and G眉nther Schlee, NY & Oxford: Berghahn Books: 67-95.
2016 Reasserting the commons: Pastoral Contestations of Private and State Lands in East Africa, International Journal of the Commons, Vol. 10, no 2: 709-727.
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