%0 Journal Article
%T On the Move in Cattle Country: Tracking Nomadic Pastoralists in Southwest Ethiopia
%A Hannah Wild
%J Archive of "The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene".
%D 2018
%R 10.4269/ajtmh.18-0086
%X In the summer of 2017, our research team headed to Ethiopia¡¯s remote lower Omo Valley, piloting methods to assess the health of nomadic pastoralists. The sun was still low at the time of day the Nyangatom people call esimokunyuk, meaning literally: ¡°the ground squirrel is sweating.¡± Although only seven, perhaps 8 o¡¯clock in the morning, already the sun beat the hard-packed earth and goats huddled together vying for the scant shade of thorn acacia trees as we searched for one of the Nyangatom¡¯s cattle encampments to conduct interviews on maternal and child health
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6085782/