Document Type
Brochure
Presentation Date
3-12-2012
Abstract
Bilinda Straight (Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1997) is associate professor of Anthropology at Western Michigan University. She works with Samburu pastoralists in northern Kenya on consciousness, cosmology, material culture, gender, health, and violence. She has published scholarly articles in a variety of journals and edited volumes. She is the editor of “Women on the Verge of Home” (SUNY, 2005), and author of “Miracles and Extraordinary Experience in Northern Kenya” (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007). She has been the recipient of numerous grants and awards, including Fulbright and National Science Foundation.
WMU ScholarWorks Citation
Straight, Bilinda, "Health Outcomes of Inter-community Violence in Three Northern Kenyan Pastoralist Communities" (2012). Distinguished Lectures on Africa. 11.
https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/africancenter_lectures/11