CURRICULUM VITAE

 

J. TERRENCE McCABE

Current Address

 

Department of Anthropology

University of Colorado, 233 UCB

                     &

Environment and Behavior Program,

Institute of Behavioral Science

University of Colorado, 468 UCB

Boulder, Colorado 80309

Tel: 303 – 492 0583 (Anthropology); 303 – 492 0443 (IBS)

e- mail: tmccabe@Colorado.Edu

 

Education

 

1976 – 1985                State University of New York at Binghamton, Ph.D. Anthropology Dissertation Title: Social and Ecological Analysis of Herd Management among the Turkana of Kenya

 

1973 – 1976                State University of New York at Binghamton, M.A., Anthropology

 

1966 – 1970                University of Notre Dame B.A.

 

 

Academic Employment

 

Professor                                  University of Colorado at Boulder (2005 – present)

 

Associate Professor                  University of Colorado at Boulder (1994 – 2005)

 

Professional Staff                      Environment and Behavior Program, Institute of Behavioral

                                                Science, University of Colorado, Boulder

 

Acting Director             Environment and Behavior Program, Institute of Behavioral

                                                Science, University of Colorado, Boulder (1999 – 2002)

 

Associate Director                    Environment and Behavior Program, Institute of Behavioral

                                                Science, University of Colorado, Boulder (1995 – 1997)

 

Faculty Research Associate      Environment and Behavior Program, Institute of Behavioral

                                                Science, University of Colorado, Boulder (1989 – 1994)

 

Assistant Professor                   University of Colorado at Boulder (1989 - 1993)

 

Assistant Professor                   University of Georgia (1984 – 1989)

 

Research Interests:

 

Ecological Anthropology, Pastoral Nomadism, Demography and Land Use Change Economic Development, Arid Lands, Conservation, Sub-Saharan Africa, East Africa

 

Editorial Responsibilities:

 

            2003 – present             Editorial Board: Human Ecology: An Interdisciplinary Journal

 

            1994- 2003                  Associate Editor: Human Ecology: An Interdisciplinary Journal.

 

1995-present                Editorial Board. Nomadic Peoples

 

Publications:

 

Books:

 

            McCabe, J. Terrence

            2004    .           Cattle Bring Us to Our Enemies: Turkana Ecology, History, and Raiding in a Disequilibrium System University of Michigan Press.

           

            Dyson-Hudson, R. and J.T. McCabe

            1985                South Turkana Nomadism:  Coping with an Unpredictably Varying Environment.  Human Relation Area Files Books, 378 pages.

 

Monographs:

 

Brandt Steven, Spring Anita, Hiebsch Clifton, McCabe, J. Terrence, Tabogie Endale, Diro Mulugeta, Wolde-Michael Gizachew, Ynitso Gebre, Shigeta Masayoshi, and Tesfaye Shiferaw.

1998                The Tree Against Hunger: Enset Cultivation in Ethiopia.  Washington D.C. American Academy for the Advancement of Science.

 

Edited Volumes:

 

            McCabe, J. Terrence (guest editor)

            2003                Anthropology and Sustainability. Human Organization Vol. 62, no.31

 

            Fratkin, Elliot and McCabe, J. Terrence (guest editors)

            1999                East African Pastoralists at the Crossroads. Special Edition of the Journal  Nomadic Peoples Vol. 3, No. 2

 

 

 

 

 

Refereed Academic Articles and Book Chapters:

 

De Vries, D. H., P.W. Leslie, and J.T. McCabe

in press:            Livestock acquisition dynamics in nomadic pastoralist herd demography: a
case study among Ngisonyoka herders of South Turkana, Kenya. Human Ecology

 

May, Ann and J. Terrence McCabe.

2004:               City Work in a Time of AIDS: Maasai Labor Migration in Tanzania. Africa Today Vol 51, No. 2: 3-32

 

McCabe, J. Terrence

            2003                Towards an Anthropological Understanding of Sustainability: A Preface. Human Organization. Vol. 62, no. 3: 91-92

 

            McCabe, J. Terrence

            2003                Sustainability and Livelihood Diversification among the Maasai of Northern Tanzania. Human Organization. Vol. 62, no 3: 100-111

 

            McCabe, J. Terrence

            2003                Disequilibrial Ecosystems and Livelihood Diversification among

                                    the Maasai of Northern Tanzania:  Implications for Conservation Policy in Eastern Africa. Nomadic Peoples  Vol. 7, No. 1, pp.74-91

 

            McCabe, J. Terrence

            2002                Conservation with a Human Face? Lessons from 40 years of Combining

                                    Conservation and Development in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area,

                                    Tanzania. In: Displacement, Forced Settlement and Conservation. Dawn

                                    Chatty ed. Oxford: Berghahn Books pp.61-76

 

            McCabe, J. Terrence

            2002                “The Role of Drought among the Turkana of Kenya”. In: Culture and

Catastrophe. Oliver-Smith, Anthony and Hoffman, Susanna, eds. School of American Research Press. pp. 213-236

 

            McCabe, J. Terrence

            2000.               “Patterns and Processes of Group Movement in Human Nomadic

                                    Populations: A Case Study of the Turkana of Northwestern Kenya”.

                                    In: On the Move: How and Why Animals Travel in Groups. Boinsky, Sue                                              and Garber, Paul eds. Chicago: Univ. Of  Chicago Press. pp. 649-677

 

            Fratkin, Elliot and McCabe, J. Terrence

            1999                “Introduction” to a special issue of Nomadic Peoples: East African                  Pastoralism at the Crossroads. Nomadic Peoples  Vol.3, No.2, pp.5-15

 

            McCabe, J. Terrence, Dyson-Hudson, Rada and Wienpahl, Jan

1999                "Nomadic Movements” In: Turkana Herders of the Dry Savanna: Ecology and biobehavioral response of nomads to an uncertain environment. Little, M.A. and Leslie, P.W. eds. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press. pp. 109-121        

                       

 

            Little, M.A., Dyson-Hudson, R., and McCabe J. Terrence

            1999.               The Ecology of South Turkana. In: Turkana Herders of the Dry

Savanna: Ecology and biobehavioral response of nomads to an

uncertain environment. Little, M.A. and Leslie, P.W. eds. Oxford: Oxford

                                    Univ. Press. pp. 43-65

 

            McCabe, J. Terrence

            1997                "Risk and Uncertainty among the Maasai of the Ngorongoro Conservation

                                    Area in Tanzania: A Case Study in Economic Change. Nomadic Peoples,

                                    Vol. 1, No. 1, pp.54-65

 

            McCabe, J. Terrence

            1996.               "Markets, Regional Economies and Tribal Pastoralism: The Ngisonyoka

                                    Turkana of Kenya". In: Tribal and Peasant Pastoralism. Ugo Fabietti and

                                    Philip Salzman eds. Ibis Press, Italy. pp. 251-276

 

            McCabe, J. Terrence

            1994.              "Pastoral Mobility: New Interpretations to Old Conceptual Problems."

                                    In African Pastoralist     Systems. Fratkin, Elliot, Eric Roth and

                                    Kathleen Galvin. eds. Boulder: Lynne Reiner Publishers. pp. 69-89

 

            McCabe, J. Terrence

1994.               "The Failure to Encapsulate: Resistance to the Penetration of Capitalism by the Turkana of Kenya." In Pastoralists at the Periphery: Herders in a

Capitalist World. Claudia Chang and Harold Koster eds. Tucson: Univ. of

                                    Arizona Press. pp 309-327

 

            McCabe, J. Terrence

            1993.               "From Swamps to Deserts: Anthropology and the Peace Corps in Africa."

                                    In: Anthropologists and the Peace Corps Experience. M.Warren and B.

                                    Schwimmer eds. Iowa State Univ. Press. pp. 186 - 195

 

            McCabe, J. Terrence, Perkin, S. and C. Schofield

            1992.               "Can Conservation and Development be Coupled among Pastoral People:

The Maasai of the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Tanzania." Human Organization - Vol. 51, #4, pp. 353 - 366

 

            McCabe, J. Terrence

            1991                "Livestock Development, Policy Issues, and      Anthropology in East Africa"

                                    In:  Anthropology and Food Policy: Human Aspects of Food Policy

in Africa and Latin America. McMillan, Della ed. University of Georgia

                                    Press. pp. 66-85

 

            McCabe, J. Terrence

            1990.              "Turkana Pastoralism: A Case Against the Tragedy of the Commons."

                                     Human Ecology. Vol. 18, #1, pp. 81-103

 

            McCabe, J. Terrence

            1990                "Success and Failure: The Breakdown of Traditional Drought Coping

                                    Institutions Among the Turkana of Kenya." Journal of Asian and           

African Studies. Vol. XXV, 3-4, pp. 146-160

 

            McCabe, J. Terrence

            1987                “Drought and Recovery: Livestock Dynamics among the Ngisonyoka

                                    Turkana of Kenya."  Human Ecology. Vol. 15, #4, pp. 371-389

 

            McCabe, J. Terrence

            1987                "Inter-Household Variation in Ngisonyoka Turkana Livestock Production."  Journal of Research in Economic Anthropology, Vol. 8, pp. 277-293

 

            Coughenour, M.B., J.E. Ellis, D.M. Swift, D.L. Coppock, K. Galvin, J.T.McCabe and             T.C. Hart

            1985                "Energy Extraction and Use in a Nomadic Pastoral Ecosystem."  Science, Vol. 230, No. 4726, pp.619-625

 

            Ellis, J.E., D.L. Coppock, J.T. McCabe, K. Galvin and J. Wienpahl

            1984                "Aspects of Energy Consumption in a pastoral ecosystem: Wood use by the South Turkana."  In C. Barnes and P. O'Keefe (eds.), Fuel wood Use in Kenya.  Uppsala, Sweden: Scandinavian Institute of African Studies. pp. 164-187

 

            Dyson-Hudson, R. and J.Terrence McCabe

            1983                "Water Uses and Livestock Movements in South Turkana, Kenya."  Nomadic Peoples.  Vol. 14, pp.41-46

 

            McCabe, J. Terrence

            1983                "Land Use among the Pastoral Turkana."  Rural Africana:  15-16, 109-126.

 

 

Articles, Chapters in Other Edited Volumes and Conference Proceedings

 

McCabe, J. Terrence, Mollel Naftali, and Tumainai Anna

             1997               "Food Security and the Role of Cultivation”       In: Multiple Land-Use: The

Experience of the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Tanzania.

                                    Thompson, M. ed. IUCN, Gland Switzerland. pp. 397-416

 

            McCabe, J. Terrence, Schofield, E.C. and Pederson, G. Nygaard

             1997               "Food Security and Nutritional Status”. In: Multiple Land-Use: The

Experience of the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Tanzania.

                                    Thompson, M. ed. IUCN, Gland Switzerland. pp. 285-302

            McCabe, J. Terrence

            1996                “The ecological and cultural significance of livestock in the Enset-based

                                    cultivation system. In: Enset-Based Sustainable Agriculture in Ethiopia.

                                    Abate Tsedeke, Clifton Hiebsch, Steven Brandt, and Seifu Gebremariam

                                    eds. Institute of Agricultural Research. Addis Abbaba. pp.228-234

 

            McCabe, J. Terrence

            1995                "Turkana". In Encyclopedia of World Cultures.             

                                    David Levinson, editor. G.K. Hall-Macmillan Press and the Human

                                    Relation Area Files. New Haven, Connecticut. Volume 9, pp.370-373

 

            McCabe, J. Terrence

            1991                "The Turkana of Kenya." in Nomads Peter Carmichael editor.

                                     London: Collins and Brown Publishers, pp. 66-95

 

            McCabe, J. Terrence, R. Dyson-Hudson, P.W. Leslie, P.H. Fry, N. Dyson-     Hudson

            and J. Wienpahl

            1988                "Movement and Migration as Pastoral Responses to Limited and

                                    Unpredictable Resources."  In Arid Lands Today and Tomorrow:

Proceedings of an International Research and Development Conference.

Whitehead, Hutchinson, Timmerman and Varady eds.Boulder: Westview Press, pp. 727-734

 

            Leslie, P.W., P.H. Fry, K. Galvin, and J.T. McCabe

            1988                "Biological, Behavioral and Ecological Influences on Fertility in Pastoralists."  In Arid Lands Today and Tomorrow:  Proceedings of an International Research and Development Conference.  Whitehead, Hutchinson, Timmerman and Varady eds. Boulder: Westview Press, pp. 705-711.

 

McCabe, J. Terrence and J.E. Ellis

            1987                "Beating the Odds in Arid Africa" Natural History, Vol. 96, #1, pp. 33-41. Reprinted in Conformity and Conflict. Spradley and McCurdy eds. Scott, Foresman/Little Brown Publications in Higher Education: pp 150-157

 

            Fry, P. and J. Terrence McCabe

            1986                "A Comparison of Two Survey Methods on Pastoral Turkana Migration Patterns and the Implication for Development Planning."  Journal of the Overseas Development Institute.  Pastoral Development Network Paper 22b, pp.1-17.

 

 

 

 

 

 

            Coppock, D.L., J.T. McCabe, J.E. Ellis, K.A. Galvin, and D.M. Swift

            1985                "Traditional Tactics of resource exploitation and allocation among nomads in an arid African environment," in Proceedings of the First International Rangeland Resources Development Symposium.eds. L.D. White and J.A. Tiedeman, Society for Range Management, Salt Lake City, pp. 87-96

 

            McCabe, J. Terrence               

            1984                "Food and the Turkana of Kenya."  Cultural Survival Quarterly. Vol. 8, No. 1, pp.48-50

 

            Coppock, D.L., J.E. Ellis, J. Wienpahl., J.T. McCabe, D.M. Swift, and K.H. Galvin

            1982                A review of livestock studies of the South Turkana Ecosystem Project. In: Proceedings, Small Ruminant CRSP Workshop Kenya, CRSP Support Program, Nairobi. pp. 168-172.

 

Reviews

 

            2002                The Poor are Not Us: Poverty and Pastoralism in Eastern Africa. Ohio University Press and James Currey. Anthropos  Vol. 97, No. 2 pp.561-563

 

            2000                The Pastoral Continuum: The Marginalization of Tradition in East Africa.

Paul Spencer. Oxford Univ. Press. Current Anthropology Vol. 41, No.3 pp.468-469

 

            1998                Settlement Ecology: the social and spatial organization of Koyfar

                                    agriculture. Glenn Davis Stone. Univ. of Arizona Press. American

Anthropologist  Vol. 100, No. 1, pp.222-223

 

            1996                Who Pays the Price, Barbara Rose Johnson,     editor. Island Press.

Environment  Vol. 38, No. 3, pp.25

 

            1995                The Art of Tracking: The Origin of Science, by Louis Liebensberg. David

                                    Philip Roth Publishers, LTD, South Africa. The Africa Book Publishing

Record.  Vol. XXI, No. 1, pp.13-14

 

            1993                Maasailand Ecology: development and conservation in Ngorongoro,

                                     Tanzania by  Kathrine Homewood, and W.A. Rodgers.

                                    Cambridge University Press. Human Ecology  Vol.21, No.3

 

            1993                Siaya: The Historical Anthropology of an African Landscape  by David

                                    William Cohen and E.S. Atieno Odhaimbo. Published by Heinemann,

                                    Nairobi; John Currey London; and OhioUniversity Press. African Book

Publishing Record  Vol. XVIII, No.1, p.7

 

 

 

            1993                Mobility and Territoriality: Social Boundaries among Foragers, Fishers,

                                    Pastoralists and Peripatetics , by M. Casimir, and A. Rao. Berg Publishers.

                                    American Anthropologist. Vol. 95, #2: 466

 

            1992                Surviving Drought and Development: Ariaal Pastoralists of Northern

                                    Kenya, by Elliot Fratkin, . Westview Press. Human Ecology. Vol. 20, #4:                                              479

 

            1991                Changing Generations: Dynamics of Generation Sets in Southeastern

                                    Sudan (Toposa) and Northwestern Kenya (Turkana), by Harald

                                                            Muller. Verlag breitenbach Publishers, Saarbrucken and Fort Lauderdale.

                                    Anthropos  Vol. 86, No. 1-3, pp. 286-287

 

Abstracts and Other Publications:

 

Leslie, PW, BR Johnson, MTN Magoma, T Bennett, and JT McCabe.

2003.               Land use, migration, and reproductive health in Ngorongoro District, Tanzania. American Journal of Human Biology 15(2):271. (abstract)

 

            McCabe, J.T.

            1992.               "A new paradigm for conservation and development in Tanzania" pp.189.

                                    A Written Symposium in the Journal of Forest and Conservation History.

 

            McCabe, J.T.

            1984                Social and Ecological Analysis of Herd Management Among Turkana Pastoralists.  Ph.D. Dissertation, S.U.N.Y.-Binghamton.

 

            McCabe, J.T.

            1976                The Concept of Niche: An evaluation of and suggestions for its use in anthropology.  Masters Thesis, Department of Anthropology, S.U.N.Y. -Binghamton.

           

External Grants, Awards, and Fellowships

 

2005  - 2007    Principal Investigator (Paul Leslie Co-Principal Investigator). Alternative Consequences of Migration for Land Use and Conservation in Northern Tanzania. MacArthur Foundation. $ 100,000

 

2004-2006       Co-Principal Investigator (Abe Goldman - PI, Paul Leslie – co PI). Collaborative Research: Consequences of Parks for Land Use, Livelihood Diversification and Biodiversity in East Africa. National Science Foundation. $ 300,000

 

2003                Co- Principal Investigator with Rachel Silvey (PI) and Monica Ogra. Human

                        Wildlife Conflict in India: Gendered Livelihoods and Vulnerability. National

                        Science Foundation. Dissertation Research Award. $ 11,800

 

2002 – 2003    Fellow at the Land Use and Environmental Change Institute. University of Florida, Gainesville

 

2001                Visiting Research Fellowship: Center for African Area Studies,

                        University of Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan. May – August

 

                 2001-2003  Principal Investigator for University of Colorado sub-contract: Integrated Assessment of Pastoral/Wildlife Interactions: Implications for People, Policy, Conservation and Development in East Africa. $ 13,764. Sub-contract from Colorado State University and USAID.

 

2001                Principal Investigator (Laura DeLuca, Co-Principal Investigator)

                                                An examination of the role of tourism work among pastoral peoples in

                                                Tanzania. $ 5,400. National Science Foundation. Dissertation Research

                                                Award

 

                        1999- 2001      Principal Investigator (Paul Leslie: Co PI) “Intensification of

                                                Pastoral Systems in the African Savanna: Integrating Demographic

                                                and Cultural Approaches. National Science Foundation. $ 195,597

 

                        1999                Principal Investigator (Ann May Co-Principal Investigator)

                                                “Leaving Home: Children’s Rural-Urban Migration and Work in East

                                                Africa” National Science Foundation. $ 5,900 - Dissertation Research

                                                Award

 

                        1998                Principal Investigator (Mark Calamia Co-Principal Investigator)

                                                “Cultural Ecology of Customary Marine Tenure in Fiji.”

                                                National Science Foundation. $ 5,900 - Dissertation Research

                                                Award

 

                        1997-2001       Principal Investigator: University of Colorado sub-contract for

proposal entitled: Integrated Modeling and Assessment for Balancing Food Security, Conservation and Ecosystem Integrity. USAID. sub-contract $ 34,322; Sub-contract from Colorado State University and USAID

 

                        1995                Principal Investigator: Incorporating Individuals into Ecosystem Analysis:

                                                 The Turkana of Northwestern Kenya. Social Science Research

                                                Council. $ 14,963.

 

                        1994                Principal Investigator: Ethnographic Research in Badlands National Park:

                                                Hunting and Oglala Natural Resource Management.

                                                National Park Service. $ 77,000.

 

 

 

 

                        1993                Principal Investigator with Ann May: Research Experiences for

                                                Undergraduates - Supplement to Human Ecology and Biological

                                                Conservation in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Tanzania

National Science Foundation. $ 5,000.

 

 

                        1993                Principal Investigator: Maasai/Wildebeest interactions in the Ngorongoro

                                                Conservation Area of Tanzania. National Geographic Society. $12,850.

 

1991-1993 Principal Investigator for University of Colorado sub-contract: Human

                                                Ecology and Biological Conservation in the Ngorongoro Conservation

                                                Area, Tanzania. $ 50,000. Principal Investigators: Jim Ellis and Kathleen

                                                Galvin: National Science Foundation. $ 300,000.

 

1990-1992             Principal Investigator for University of Colorado sub-contract. $ 39,000.

                                                Issues and Concepts In Pastoral Ecology. Jim Ellis, David Swift, and

                                                Michael Cougenhour, Principal Investigators. National Science

                                                Foundation. $ 400,000.

 

                  1984-1985 Co-Principal Investigator: with:  J. Ellis, K. Galvin and D. Swift. 

Coping with drought in northern Kenya:  Traditional Tactics of Survival and the Role of Development. Norwegian Agency for International Development. $100,000

 

                  1983                      Co-Principal Investigator: with: J. Ellis and T. Hart. 

An Assessment of Road Impacts in North West Kenya. Norwegian Agency for International Development. $ 50,000

 

                        1981                Co-Principal Investigator: with:  Rada Dyson-Hudson. 

An Evaluation of South Turkana Water Resources and Livestock Movements. Norwegian Agency for International Development $ 30,000

 

 

Research Funded as a Collaborator but not Principal Investigator

 

2004                Collaborator with Paul Leslie. Risk Perception, Land use, and Labor Migration in Northern Tanzania. Funded by the Mellon Foundation and the Carolina Population Center  $19,855

 

1997                Collaborator with Paul Leslie. Population and Changing Land Use in Northern Tanzania. Funded by the Mellon Foundation and the Carolina Population

                        Center $ 79,754

           

1985-1989       Collaborator with Jim Ellis, David Swift and Michael Cougenhour:

                        "Persistence of a Pastoral Ecosystem" National Science Foundation.

                        Principal investigators: Ellis, Swift and Cougenhour. $ 1,600,000

 

 

Internal Grants and Awards

 

2002-2003       Faculty Fellowship: Migration and Livelihood Diversification among the Maasai

                        northern Tanzania. Fellowship covers salary for one half of the academic year.

 

2002-2003       Principal Investigator: Migration and Livelihood Diversification among the

                        Maasai in northern Tanzania. Council on Research and Creative Work, University

                        of Colorado. $ 5,000

 

2001-2002