Erika Grasso

Erika Grasso

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University of Turin
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I am PhD student in Cultural Anthropology at Turin University and carry out research in Northern Kenya, in the Marsabit County, with particular focus on Marsabit town where I spent more than a year of fieldwork between 2013 and 2015. I have studied the urban space in Marsabit and its everyday practices and narratives in order to get a deeper understanding of Marsabit town and of the actual reality of a region characterised by fragile political, economical and social balances, as Northeastern Africa is. In 2011 I carried out a research focused on Italian catholic missionaries' activity among Gabra people of Norther Kenya trying to find out if and how local nomads welcomed – or not welcomed – european missionaries and how Catholic Church has affected Gabra's  life in terms of everyday life, sedentarisation processes and development dynamics in the former Kenya's Northern Frontier District.

 

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