Carolyn Lesorogol
Biographic Data
| ID | 627419 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carolyn Lesorogol |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carolyn |
| FAMILY NAME | Lesorogol |
| SIGNATURE | LESOROGOL C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Washington University in St. Louis |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8946-0289 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 170 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Beyond Disposable Social Work and Towards Ecosocial Work: An Ethnographic Case Study of Jjokbang-chon in Seoul, S. Korea
This study is an inquiry into the role of social work in responding to the vulnerability of poor older adults living in jjokbang-chon, a neighborhood with a high concentration of informal housing in Seoul, South Korea, to extreme weather disasters. The findings presented in this research are derived from a year-long ethnographic study. The fieldwork consisted of living in the community, carrying out participant observations through working with s…
Drought frequency, conservancies, and pastoral household well-being
Portions of group ranches of northern Kenya communally held by pastoralists have been removed from grazing to support wildlife and encourage tourism and the resources that follow. These community-based conservancies (CBCs) were designed to benefit CBC members through regular payments, potential for wages, improved security, etc. We used a coupled-systems simulation approach to quantify potential changes in livestock numbers and pastoral well-bein…
Community-Based Wildlife Conservation on Pastoral Lands in Kenya: A New Logic of Production with Implications for the Future of Pastoralism
Community-based wildlife conservation has been identified as a potentially successful approach to meet the needs of wildlife and the interests of local communities living among wildlife, national governments, and the global community interested in stemming the extinction crisis facing the planet. There is a significant literature critiquing the neoliberal approach to community-based conservation arguing that it has not been successful in meeting …
Determinants of mental illness and care seeking behaviours in Northern Haiti: An assessment of demographic, social, and religio-cultural factors among patients at the first mental health clinic in the…
Populations in countries such as Haiti demonstrate a high level of need for mental health care despite a lack of services and trained professionals. In addition to the dearth of biomedical services, local belief systems and explanatory models contribute to a majority of the population relying on traditional medicine as their first option for care. Using a mixed-methods approach, we aim to characterise mental illness at the first mental health cli…
Examining the Etiology and Treatment of Mental Illness Among Vodou Priests in Northern Haiti
A formative assessment of vulnerability and implications for enhancing livelihood sustainability in Indigenous communities in the Andes of Ecuador
Gods are watching and so what? Moralistic supernatural punishment across 15 cultures
Psychological and cultural evolutionary accounts of human sociality propose that beliefs in punitive and monitoring gods that care about moral norms facilitate cooperation. While there is some evidence to suggest that belief in supernatural punishment and monitoring generally induce cooperative behaviour, the effect of a deity's explicitly postulated moral concerns on cooperation remains unclear. Here, we report a pre-registered set of analyses t…
Samaki Salama – Promoting healthy child growth and sustainable fisheries in coastal Kenya: A study protocol
Background One in five young children globally suffer the consequences of stunted growth and development and millions experience deficiencies in zinc, iron, iodine, vitamins A and B12, nutrients found bioavailable in fish foods. Small-scale fisheries have the potential to generate income and augment fish consumption while being environmentally sustainable if appropriately managed. However, those engaged in small-scale fisheries are often marginal…
The moralization bias of gods’ minds: A cross-cultural test
There are compelling reasons to expect that cognitively representing any active, powerful deity motivates cooperative behavior. One mechanism underlying this association could be a cognitive bias toward generally attributing moral concern to anthropomorphic agents. If humans cognitively represent the minds of deities and humans in the same way, and if human agents are generally conceptualized as having moral concern, a broad tendency to attribute…
The religiosity gender gap in 14 diverse societies
Scholars of religion have long sought to explain the persistent finding that women tend to report greater religiosity than men. However, the size of this "gender gap" may depend on the measure of religiosity employed, the religious tradition being sampled, and socio-demographic factors. Here, we conduct a systematic cross-cultural investigation into the prevalence of, and explanations for, the religiosity gender gap in 2,002 individuals from 14 d…
Land degradation and the link to increased livelihood vulnerabilities among indigenous populations in the Andes of Ecuador
Economic determinants of breastfeeding in Haiti: The effects of poverty, food insecurity, and employment on exclusive breastfeeding in an urban population
There is limited and inconsistent empirical evidence regarding the role of economic factors in breastfeeding practices, globally. Studies have found both negative and positive associations between low income and exclusive breastfeeding (EBF). Employment, which should improve household income, may reduce EBF due to separation of mother and infant. In the context of a randomized controlled study of lipid-based complementary feeding in an urban slum…
Which Way Forward? Using simulation models and ethnography to understand changing livelihoods among Kenyan pastoralists in a “new commons”
Over the last several decades there has been a transformation of the Samburu pastoral commons to new forms of land tenure and use. Government led land adjudication in the 1970s and 1980s established new forms of land ownership including group ranches and, in some places, complete privatization of land into individual parcels. An important question is what forms of land use and social relations emerge in the wake of land adjudication, and with wha…
The “new pastoral commons” of Eastern and Southern Africa
Editorial for: Pastoralism and the new commons: Co-management, conflict and cooperation
Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors in Children of Immigrants: The Experience of Korean-American Women
This qualitative study examines the experience of Korean-American women who had suicidal thoughts and/or used nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI) during adolescence. This study aims to understand the etiology, help-seeking behaviors, and recovery of these young women. Eleven Korean-American women (mean age 26.7) were recruited and interviewed using in-depth semi-structured interviews. Transcripts were coded using a grounded theoretical framework. Them…
Inequality in our midst
The recent recession, Occupy Wall Street movement, Eurozone crisis, and growing recognition of the gap between the top 1 percent and the middle class have brought new attention to the problem of economic and social inequality in the United States in particular and across the globe more generally. In 2013, the Society for Economic Anthropology held its annual conference on the theme of inequality. This issue brings together papers presented at the…
Preventative lipid‐based nutrient supplements ( LNS ) and young child feeding practices: Findings from qualitative research in H aiti
To prevent undernutrition in an urban slum in Haiti, a lipid-based nutrient supplement (LNS) was introduced through a randomised control trial. Food supplementation for young child nutrition has a long history in Haiti, but there is little empirical information regarding the effects of supplementation on young child feeding practices. One of the concerns raised by supplementation is that it may disrupt other positive feeding practices such as bre…
Animal milk sustains micronutrient nutrition and child anthropometry among pastoralists in Samburu, Kenya
Milk has been integral to pastoralist nutrition for thousands of years, but as communities move toward settled livelihoods, milk consumption is dropping with only minimal evidence for the health and nutrition implications. This longitudinal study aimed to first test whether increased dependency on agriculture reduced household milk production and consumption, and ultimately, nutrient adequacy among the Samburu pastoralists. Second, we investigate…
Dietary Intakes and Micronutrient Adequacy Related to the Changing Livelihoods of Two Pastoralist Communities in Samburu, Kenya
Pastoralist communities have traditionally depended on animal foods in their diets. Environmental and political pressures in recent years have led millions to agriculture and other income diversification strategies. This longitudinal study of two pastoralist communities with differing land tenure systems compared the probability of micronutrient intake adequacies in relation to livelihood transitions. Three waves of social, economic, and dietary …
The Roles of Livestock Inheritance and Formal Education in Intergenerational Wealth Transmission among Pastoralists in Samburu District, Kenya
Samburu pastoralists often express the belief that formal education may be an alternative route out of poverty for poor pastoralists. The roles of parental wealth, livestock inheritance, and education in household wealth and income are investigated for two communities. Parental wealth and primary education, but not amount of livestock inherited, are positively associated with household wealth. Educational attainment is not statistically significa…
Page Avenue health impact assessment: Building on diverse partnerships and evidence to promote a healthy community
The Page Avenue health impact assessment (HIA) was focused on a redevelopment in Missouri. This case study describes a comprehensive HIA led by an interdisciplinary academic team with community partners, as well as compliance with North American HIA Practice Standards. Some of the key lessons learned included: (1) interdisciplinary teams are valuable but they require flexibility and organization; (2) engaging community stakeholders and decision-m…
The Impact of Land Privatization on Cooperation in Farm Labor in Kenya
Livestock Inheritance and Education: Attitudes and Decision Making among Samburu Pastoralists
This study investigates current practices and attitudes regarding livestock inheritance and education. There is evidence that investments in education may in some cases replace traditional forms of livestock inheritance, reflecting current perceptions of the relative values of pastoralism and forms of employment for which formal education is required. This trend suggests that a long-standing and critical mechanism for intergenerational transmissi…
Shipton, Parker: Mortgaging the Ancestors. Ideologies of Attachment in Africa
Anthropos , Seite 303 - 304
The Impact of Privatization on Land Inheritance among Samburu Pastoralists in Kenya
Privatization of communal land among a community of pastoralists in northern Kenya creates a gap in social institutions relating to land inheritance. This analysis shows that the emergence of a new rule for inheritance is a complex social process and that new rules do not arise automatically. Using theories of institutions and collective action, this study examines the process through which rules of inheritance are emerging in Siambu since land p…
Transforming Institutions among Pastoralists: Inequality and Land Privatization
This article analyzes how a community of Samburu pastoralists in Kenya transformed their land tenure system from communal to private ownership. It demonstrates the dynamic nature of institutional change processes by examining exogenous and endogenous factors that created conditions conducive to change. Inequalities and conflicting interests among different social groups provided impetus for change as well as ammunition to attack or defend common …
Land Privatization and Pastoralist Well-being in Kenya
East African pastoralists have well-developed systems of communal land management that have been challenged by recent demands from some pastoralists for land privatization. This article analyses the impact on household well-being of privatizing land among a community of Samburu pastoralists in northern Kenya. Using longitudinal data from household surveys conducted in 2000 and 2005, trends in wealth, income, stratification and livelihood strategi…
Privatizing pastoral lands: Economic and normative outcomes in Kenya
Dietary Intakes and Micronutrient Adequacy Related to the Changing Livelihoods of Two Pastoralist Communities in Samburu, Kenya
Pastoralist communities have traditionally depended on animal foods in their diets. Environmental and political pressures in recent years have led millions to agriculture and other income diversification strategies. This longitudinal study of two pastoralist communities with differing land tenure systems compared the probability of micronutrient intake adequacies in relation to livelihood transitions. Three waves of social, economic, and dietary …
Bringing Norms In: The Role of Context in Experimental Dictator Games
Experimental economics aims to understand the foundations of human behaviors such as altruism, trust, and cooperation through controlled choice situations that enable comparison of behaviors across both individuals and societies. While games aim to elicit "pure" behavior by isolating it from social contexts, there is some evidence that participants bring their normative frameworks into game situations and that this might influence their behavior …
Experiments and Ethnography: Combining Methods for Better Understanding of Behavior and Change
The Impact of Privatization on Land Inheritance among Samburu Pastoralists in Kenya
Privatization of communal land among a community of pastoralists in northern Kenya creates a gap in social institutions relating to land inheritance. This analysis shows that the emergence of a new rule for inheritance is a complex social process and that new rules do not arise automatically. Using theories of institutions and collective action, this study examines the process through which rules of inheritance are emerging in Siambu since land p…
The “new pastoral commons” of Eastern and Southern Africa
Editorial for: Pastoralism and the new commons: Co-management, conflict and cooperation
Animal milk sustains micronutrient nutrition and child anthropometry among pastoralists in Samburu, Kenya
Milk has been integral to pastoralist nutrition for thousands of years, but as communities move toward settled livelihoods, milk consumption is dropping with only minimal evidence for the health and nutrition implications. This longitudinal study aimed to first test whether increased dependency on agriculture reduced household milk production and consumption, and ultimately, nutrient adequacy among the Samburu pastoralists. Second, we investigate…
Community-Based Wildlife Conservation on Pastoral Lands in Kenya: A New Logic of Production with Implications for the Future of Pastoralism
Community-based wildlife conservation has been identified as a potentially successful approach to meet the needs of wildlife and the interests of local communities living among wildlife, national governments, and the global community interested in stemming the extinction crisis facing the planet. There is a significant literature critiquing the neoliberal approach to community-based conservation arguing that it has not been successful in meeting …
The religiosity gender gap in 14 diverse societies
Scholars of religion have long sought to explain the persistent finding that women tend to report greater religiosity than men. However, the size of this "gender gap" may depend on the measure of religiosity employed, the religious tradition being sampled, and socio-demographic factors. Here, we conduct a systematic cross-cultural investigation into the prevalence of, and explanations for, the religiosity gender gap in 2,002 individuals from 14 d…
Which Way Forward? Using simulation models and ethnography to understand changing livelihoods among Kenyan pastoralists in a “new commons”
Over the last several decades there has been a transformation of the Samburu pastoral commons to new forms of land tenure and use. Government led land adjudication in the 1970s and 1980s established new forms of land ownership including group ranches and, in some places, complete privatization of land into individual parcels. An important question is what forms of land use and social relations emerge in the wake of land adjudication, and with wha…
Page Avenue health impact assessment: Building on diverse partnerships and evidence to promote a healthy community
The Page Avenue health impact assessment (HIA) was focused on a redevelopment in Missouri. This case study describes a comprehensive HIA led by an interdisciplinary academic team with community partners, as well as compliance with North American HIA Practice Standards. Some of the key lessons learned included: (1) interdisciplinary teams are valuable but they require flexibility and organization; (2) engaging community stakeholders and decision-m…
Setting Themselves Apart: Education, Capabilities, and Sexuality Among Samburu Women in Kenya
Formal education for girls among the pastoralist Samburu of northern Kenya imparts new knowledge and skills, but also inculcates ideas and attitudes that clash with conventional understandings of female capabilities, sexuality, and gender roles. As a result, formal education has contributed to increased differentiation between educated and uneducated girls and women, with some negative implications for individuals as well as for female solidarity…
The Impact of Land Privatization on Cooperation in Farm Labor in Kenya
A formative assessment of vulnerability and implications for enhancing livelihood sustainability in Indigenous communities in the Andes of Ecuador
Gods are watching and so what? Moralistic supernatural punishment across 15 cultures
Psychological and cultural evolutionary accounts of human sociality propose that beliefs in punitive and monitoring gods that care about moral norms facilitate cooperation. While there is some evidence to suggest that belief in supernatural punishment and monitoring generally induce cooperative behaviour, the effect of a deity's explicitly postulated moral concerns on cooperation remains unclear. Here, we report a pre-registered set of analyses t…
Livestock Inheritance and Education: Attitudes and Decision Making among Samburu Pastoralists
This study investigates current practices and attitudes regarding livestock inheritance and education. There is evidence that investments in education may in some cases replace traditional forms of livestock inheritance, reflecting current perceptions of the relative values of pastoralism and forms of employment for which formal education is required. This trend suggests that a long-standing and critical mechanism for intergenerational transmissi…
Transforming Institutions among Pastoralists: Inequality and Land Privatization
This article analyzes how a community of Samburu pastoralists in Kenya transformed their land tenure system from communal to private ownership. It demonstrates the dynamic nature of institutional change processes by examining exogenous and endogenous factors that created conditions conducive to change. Inequalities and conflicting interests among different social groups provided impetus for change as well as ammunition to attack or defend common …
Privatizing pastoral lands: Economic and normative outcomes in Kenya
Cattle Bring Us to Our Enemies: Turkana Ecology, Politics, and Raiding in a Disequilibrium System
Cattle Bring Us to Our Enemies: Turkana Ecology, Politics, and Raiding in. Disequilibrium System. J. Terrence McCabe. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2004. 299 pp
Experiments and Ethnography: Combining Methods for Better Understanding of Behavior and Change
Bringing Norms In: The Role of Context in Experimental Dictator Games
Experimental economics aims to understand the foundations of human behaviors such as altruism, trust, and cooperation through controlled choice situations that enable comparison of behaviors across both individuals and societies. While games aim to elicit "pure" behavior by isolating it from social contexts, there is some evidence that participants bring their normative frameworks into game situations and that this might influence their behavior …
Contesting the Commons: Privatizing Pastoral Lands in Kenya
Land Privatization and Pastoralist Well-being in Kenya
East African pastoralists have well-developed systems of communal land management that have been challenged by recent demands from some pastoralists for land privatization. This article analyses the impact on household well-being of privatizing land among a community of Samburu pastoralists in northern Kenya. Using longitudinal data from household surveys conducted in 2000 and 2005, trends in wealth, income, stratification and livelihood strategi…
Setting Themselves Apart: Education, Capabilities, and Sexuality Among Samburu Women in Kenya
Formal education for girls among the pastoralist Samburu of northern Kenya imparts new knowledge and skills, but also inculcates ideas and attitudes that clash with conventional understandings of female capabilities, sexuality, and gender roles. As a result, formal education has contributed to increased differentiation between educated and uneducated girls and women, with some negative implications for individuals as well as for female solidarity…
The Impact of Privatization on Land Inheritance among Samburu Pastoralists in Kenya
Privatization of communal land among a community of pastoralists in northern Kenya creates a gap in social institutions relating to land inheritance. This analysis shows that the emergence of a new rule for inheritance is a complex social process and that new rules do not arise automatically. Using theories of institutions and collective action, this study examines the process through which rules of inheritance are emerging in Siambu since land p…
Livestock Inheritance and Education: Attitudes and Decision Making among Samburu Pastoralists
This study investigates current practices and attitudes regarding livestock inheritance and education. There is evidence that investments in education may in some cases replace traditional forms of livestock inheritance, reflecting current perceptions of the relative values of pastoralism and forms of employment for which formal education is required. This trend suggests that a long-standing and critical mechanism for intergenerational transmissi…
Shipton, Parker: Mortgaging the Ancestors. Ideologies of Attachment in Africa
Anthropos , Seite 303 - 304
Page Avenue health impact assessment: Building on diverse partnerships and evidence to promote a healthy community
The Page Avenue health impact assessment (HIA) was focused on a redevelopment in Missouri. This case study describes a comprehensive HIA led by an interdisciplinary academic team with community partners, as well as compliance with North American HIA Practice Standards. Some of the key lessons learned included: (1) interdisciplinary teams are valuable but they require flexibility and organization; (2) engaging community stakeholders and decision-m…
The Impact of Land Privatization on Cooperation in Farm Labor in Kenya
The Roles of Livestock Inheritance and Formal Education in Intergenerational Wealth Transmission among Pastoralists in Samburu District, Kenya
Samburu pastoralists often express the belief that formal education may be an alternative route out of poverty for poor pastoralists. The roles of parental wealth, livestock inheritance, and education in household wealth and income are investigated for two communities. Parental wealth and primary education, but not amount of livestock inherited, are positively associated with household wealth. Educational attainment is not statistically significa…
Preventative lipid‐based nutrient supplements ( LNS ) and young child feeding practices: Findings from qualitative research in H aiti
To prevent undernutrition in an urban slum in Haiti, a lipid-based nutrient supplement (LNS) was introduced through a randomised control trial. Food supplementation for young child nutrition has a long history in Haiti, but there is little empirical information regarding the effects of supplementation on young child feeding practices. One of the concerns raised by supplementation is that it may disrupt other positive feeding practices such as bre…
Animal milk sustains micronutrient nutrition and child anthropometry among pastoralists in Samburu, Kenya
Milk has been integral to pastoralist nutrition for thousands of years, but as communities move toward settled livelihoods, milk consumption is dropping with only minimal evidence for the health and nutrition implications. This longitudinal study aimed to first test whether increased dependency on agriculture reduced household milk production and consumption, and ultimately, nutrient adequacy among the Samburu pastoralists. Second, we investigate…
Dietary Intakes and Micronutrient Adequacy Related to the Changing Livelihoods of Two Pastoralist Communities in Samburu, Kenya
Pastoralist communities have traditionally depended on animal foods in their diets. Environmental and political pressures in recent years have led millions to agriculture and other income diversification strategies. This longitudinal study of two pastoralist communities with differing land tenure systems compared the probability of micronutrient intake adequacies in relation to livelihood transitions. Three waves of social, economic, and dietary …
Inequality in our midst
The recent recession, Occupy Wall Street movement, Eurozone crisis, and growing recognition of the gap between the top 1 percent and the middle class have brought new attention to the problem of economic and social inequality in the United States in particular and across the globe more generally. In 2013, the Society for Economic Anthropology held its annual conference on the theme of inequality. This issue brings together papers presented at the…
Which Way Forward? Using simulation models and ethnography to understand changing livelihoods among Kenyan pastoralists in a “new commons”
Over the last several decades there has been a transformation of the Samburu pastoral commons to new forms of land tenure and use. Government led land adjudication in the 1970s and 1980s established new forms of land ownership including group ranches and, in some places, complete privatization of land into individual parcels. An important question is what forms of land use and social relations emerge in the wake of land adjudication, and with wha…
The “new pastoral commons” of Eastern and Southern Africa
Editorial for: Pastoralism and the new commons: Co-management, conflict and cooperation
Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors in Children of Immigrants: The Experience of Korean-American Women
This qualitative study examines the experience of Korean-American women who had suicidal thoughts and/or used nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI) during adolescence. This study aims to understand the etiology, help-seeking behaviors, and recovery of these young women. Eleven Korean-American women (mean age 26.7) were recruited and interviewed using in-depth semi-structured interviews. Transcripts were coded using a grounded theoretical framework. Them…
Economic determinants of breastfeeding in Haiti: The effects of poverty, food insecurity, and employment on exclusive breastfeeding in an urban population
There is limited and inconsistent empirical evidence regarding the role of economic factors in breastfeeding practices, globally. Studies have found both negative and positive associations between low income and exclusive breastfeeding (EBF). Employment, which should improve household income, may reduce EBF due to separation of mother and infant. In the context of a randomized controlled study of lipid-based complementary feeding in an urban slum…
Land degradation and the link to increased livelihood vulnerabilities among indigenous populations in the Andes of Ecuador
Samaki Salama – Promoting healthy child growth and sustainable fisheries in coastal Kenya: A study protocol
Background One in five young children globally suffer the consequences of stunted growth and development and millions experience deficiencies in zinc, iron, iodine, vitamins A and B12, nutrients found bioavailable in fish foods. Small-scale fisheries have the potential to generate income and augment fish consumption while being environmentally sustainable if appropriately managed. However, those engaged in small-scale fisheries are often marginal…
The moralization bias of gods’ minds: A cross-cultural test
There are compelling reasons to expect that cognitively representing any active, powerful deity motivates cooperative behavior. One mechanism underlying this association could be a cognitive bias toward generally attributing moral concern to anthropomorphic agents. If humans cognitively represent the minds of deities and humans in the same way, and if human agents are generally conceptualized as having moral concern, a broad tendency to attribute…
Geography (19 works) · Political science (16 works) · Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology (16 works) · Economics (14 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Livestock (10 works) · Pastoralism (10 works) · Agriculture (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Medicine (9 works)