Dr. Mark Moritz


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JOURNAL ARTICLES

Moritz, Mark, Britney Kyle, Kevin C. Nolan, Steve Patrick, Marnie F. Shaffer, and Gayatri Thampy
In press. Too Many people and Too Few Livestock in West Africa? An Evaluation of Sandford’s Thesis. Journal of Development Studies.

Moritz, Mark
In press. Competing paradigms in pastoral development? A perspective from the Far North of Cameroon. World Development.

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

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

Scholte, Paul, Saïdou Kari, Mark Moritz, and Herbert Prins
2006 Pastoralists' Responses to Floodplain Rehabilitation in Northern Cameroon. Human ecology 34(1).

Moritz, Mark
2005 FulBe Pastoralists and the Neo-Patrimonial State in the Chad Basin. Geography Research Forum 25:83-104. This paper is part of a special issue on Pastoralists and the State edited by Elliot Fratkin and Avinoam Meir. Click here for contents of the special issue.

CHAPTERS IN EDITED BOOKS

Moritz, Mark
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. London: Routledge.

Moritz, Mark
2006  Economic anthropology. In International Encyclopedia of Economic Sociology. M. Zafirovski and J. Beckert, eds. Pp. 170-172. London: Routledge.

Moritz, Mark
2006  Traditional economies. In International Encyclopedia of Economic Sociology. M. Zafirovski and J. Beckert, eds. Pp. 677-679. London: Routledge.

Moritz, Mark
2006  Potlatch. In International Encyclopedia of Economic Sociology. M. Zafirovski and J. Beckert, eds. Pp. 523-524. London: Routledge.

Moritz, Mark, and Leslie C. Moore
2006 Mini conference with poster presentations. In Strategies in Teaching Anthropology, fourth edition. P. Rice and D. McCurdy, eds. Pp. 1-3. Upper Saddle River (NJ): Prentice Hall.

Loth, Paul, Mark Moritz, Roger Kouokam, Paul Scholte, and Saïdou Kari
2004  The people of the floodplain. In The return of the water. P. Loth, ed. Pp. 53-67. Gland (Switzerland): IUCN.

Kouokam, Roger, Mark Moritz, Daniel Ngantou, and Paul Loth
2004  Conflicts and conflict management in the Waza Logone Floodplain. In The return of the water. P. Loth, ed. Pp. 69-74. Gland (Switzerland): IUCN.

Braund, Richard, Paul Loth, Mark Moritz, Paul Scholte, Saïdou Kari, Daniel Ngantou, Roger Kouokam
2004  The Waza Logone Project in action. In The return of the water. P. Loth, ed. Pp. 105-124. Gland (Switzerland): IUCN.

Moritz, Mark
2003 Exchange Theory and Experimental Economics. In Strategies in Teaching Anthropology, third edition. P. Rice and D. McCurdy, eds. Pp. 101-104. Upper Saddle River (NJ): Prentice Hall.

Moritz, Mark, and Saïdou Kari
2001 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.

BOOK REVIEWS

Mark Beach, Nini Callan, Ben Kaufmann, Melissa Moch and Mark Moritz
2006 Book review of "Unpopular Culture: The Rules of Complaint in a British Bank". Anthropology of Work Review 27(2):25-26.

Moritz, Mark
2006  Book review of Ecology, Colonialism and Cattle. Journal of Peasant Studies 33(3):560-563.

Moritz, Mark
2006 Book review of four books on dryland husbandry in the Horn of Africa published by the Organization for Social Science Research in Eastern and Southern African. African Studies Review 49(3):71-73.

Moritz, Mark
2006 Book review of "Managing mobility in African rangelands". African Studies Review 49(2):205-206.

CenTREAD Working Group
2005  Book review of "Making Parks Work: Strategies for Preserving Tropical Nature". Conservation Biology 19(1): 279-281.

Moritz, Mark
2004  Book review of "Fulbe Voices" and "Memoirs of a Mbororo". African Studies Review 47(2):151-154.

Moritz, Mark
2003  Book review of " Que faire sans vétérinaire?" Bulletin Méga-Tchad (1):53.

BULLETINS AND REPORTS

Moritz, Mark
2008  Integrating Wikis in Anthropology Courses. Anthropology News 49 (3):31.

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

Scholte, Paul, Saïdou Kari, and Mark Moritz
1996  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.

Moritz, Mark1994  A Harde is a Pasture where no Grass grows or Water Infiltrates: Pastoralists Perceptions of Pastures in North Cameroon. Environment and development student report 35: Centre for Environmental Studies, Leiden University.

Moritz, Mark
1994  Yaake, yaayre wi'ete no yaayre: pastoralists' perceptions of and adaptation to rangeland degradation of the Logone floodplain, Waza Logone Project (IUCN).