Mark Moritz (Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio)

Submitted:  Fri, 27 June 2008


Dr. Mark Moritz
Assistant Professor
Department of Anthropology
The Ohio State University
112 Lord Hall
124 W. 17th Ave.
Columbus, Ohio 43210-1364  USA

phone:   614 247 7426
fax:     614 292 4155
e-mail:  moritz.42@osu.edu
         mark.moritz@gmail.com

Web page: http://anthropology.osu.edu/faculty/pages/Moritz.php


My research interests are:

Pastoral systems
Political ecology
Complex adaptive systems
Herder-farmer conflicts
Natural resource management
Environment and development
Rural development
Economic anthropology
Institutions and economy
Household studies
FulBe
Cameroon
West Africa


My teaching interests are:

Cultural Anthropology
Evolution of Human Societies
Peoples and Cultures of Africa
Pastoral Nomads
Socialization and Development
Ethnographic Writing
Language and Culture
Ethnographic Methods
Physical Anthropology
Psychological Anthropology
Environment and Development
Economic Anthropology
Environmental Anthropology
Political Ecology
Anthropology of Islam
Development Anthropology


Selected publications are:

Under review. Understanding Herder-Farmer Conflicts in West Africa: 
Outline of an Analytical Approach.

2006. The Politics of Permanent Conflict: Herder-Farmer Conflicts in the 
Far North of Cameroon. Canadian Journal of African Studies 40(1).

2006. Introduction: Changing Contexts and Dynamics of Herder-Farmer 
Conflicts across West Africa. Canadian Journal of African Studies 40(1). 

Under review. Disentangling Honor Psychology and Pastoral Personality: An 
Ecocultural Analysis of Herding Routines of FulBe Children in West Africa. 

2005. FulBe Pastoralists and the Neo-Patrimonial State in the Chad Basin. 
Geography Research Forum. 25:83-104.

2002.  With Paul Scholte and Sadou Kari
The Demise of the Nomadic Contract: Arrangements and Rangelands 
under Pressure in the Far North of Cameroon. Nomadic Peoples 6(1): 127-146.

1999  With Francis Tarla
Fulani Pastoralists' Perceptions and Perspectives on Rangelands and 
its Degradation in Northern Cameroon. Mega-Chad Bulletin (1 & 2): 16.

With Paul Scholte, Sadou Kari, and Herbert Prins
Forthcoming. Pastoralists' Responses to Floodplain Rehabilitation in 
Northern Cameroon. Human ecology 34(1).

1996  With Paul Scholte and Sadou Kari
The Involvement of Nomadic and Transhumance Pastoralists in the 
Rehabilitation and Management of the Logone Flood Plain, North Cameroon. 
IIED Drylands Programme Issues Paper (66):1-21.
 
Forthcoming. Individualization of Livestock Ownership in FulBe Family 
Herds: The Effects of Pastoral Intensification and Islamic Renewal. In 
Collective and Multiple Forms of Property in Animals and Land. G. Schlee 
and A. Khazanov, eds.

2006  Economic Anthropology, Traditional Economies, Potlatch. In 
International Encyclopedia of Economic Sociology. M. Zafirovski and J. 
Beckert, eds. London: Routledge.
         
2004  Multiple contributions In The return of the water. P. Loth, ed. 
Gland (Switzerland): IUCN.
  
2001  With Sadou Kari
"Is there a Future for Pastoralism in the Far North Province of Cameroon?,"
In Management of Fragile Ecosystems in the North of Cameroon: The Need 
for an Adaptive Approach. Proceedings of an international conference, 
Maroua 13-16 November 2000. M. Ali, P. Loth, H. Bauer, and H. de Iongh, 
eds. Maroua (Cameroon) & Leiden (Netherlands): CEDC & CML.