NEVILLE DYSON-HUDSON
(DPhil Oxford 1960), Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, is a sociocultural anthropologist who has devoted a large part of his professional life to the study of pastoral nomads in the Sudan, Uganda, and Kenya, where he has worked among the Beja, Karamojong, and Turkana. His theoretical concerns include ecology, human-livestock interrelations among pastoralists, social actors, population variability, and social process. He has served as consultant for the World Bank and the Rockefeller Foundation.
1991 Pastoral Production Systems and Livestock Development Projects in East Africa. In Putting People First, 2nd edition, ed. by M. Cernea. World Bank, Washington, D.C.
In press (with R. Dyson-Hudson) The Social Organization of Resource Exploitation. In Turkana Nomads: Behavior, Biology and Ecology of a Kenyan Pastoral Population, ed. by M.A. Little and P.W. Leslie. Oxford University, Oxford.
In press (with M.A. Little, R. Dyson-Hudson and N.L. Winterbauer) Environmental Variations in the South Turkana Ecosystem. Ibid.
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