OHTA Itaru is Professor Emeritus at the Center for African Area Studies, Kyoto University. He obtained a D.Sc. from Kyoto University in 1986, and his research has involved conducting anthropological fieldwork among African pastoralist societies, especially in Kenya and Namibia, focusing on human–animal interactions in livestock herding/husbandry, livestock classification and individual identification, livestock transfer as a medium of social relationships, social change and inter-ethnic conflicts.
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Displacement Risks in AfricaOHTA Itaru
As the plight of refugees around the world loom...As the plight of refugees around the world looms large as one of the central problems facing the international political community at the beginning of the 21st century, the situations facing displa...
