| Included Work | Campbell, Benjamin C. Settled Turkana. |
| Included Work | Curran, Linda S. Subsistence, activity patterns, and physical work capacity. |
| Included Work | Dyson-Hudson, Neville. Social organization of resource exploitation. |
| Included Work | Dyson-Hudson, Rada. South Turkana nomadism. |
| Included Work | Galvin, Kathleen A., 1949- Dietary intake and nutritional status. |
| Included Work | Gray, Sandra J. Infant care and feeding. |
| Included Work | Gulliver, Pamela. Turkana. |
| Included Work | Gulliver, P. H. Family herds. |
| Included Work | Gulliver, P. H. Turkana age organization. |
| Included Work | Gulliver, P. H. Preliminary survey of the Turkana Family herds. |
| Included Work | Johnson, Brooke R. (Brooke Ronald). Social networks and exchange. |
| Included Work | Leslie, Paul W. Fecundity and fertility. |
| Included Work | Leslie, Paul W. People and herds. |
| Included Work | Leslie, Paul W. Population replacement and persistence. |
| Included Work | Leslie, Paul W. Ngisonyoka event calendar. |
| Included Work | Leslie, Paul W. Synthesis and lessons. |
| Included Work | Little, Michael A. Environmental variations in the South Turkana ecosystem boundaries. |
| Included Work | Little, Michael A. Framework and theory. |
| Included Work | Little, Michael A. Ecology of South Turkana. |
| Included Work | Little, Michael A. Infant, child, and adolescent growth, and adult physical status. |
| Included Work | McCabe, J. Terrence. Nomadic movements. |
| Included Work | McCabe, J. Terrence. Culture summary, Turkana. |
| Included Work | McCabe, J. Terrence. Cattle bring us to our enemies. |
| Included Work | McCabe, J. Terrence. Success and failure, the breakdown of traditional drought coping institutions among the pastoral Turkana of Kenya. |
| Included Work | McCabe, J. Terrence. Failure to encapsulate, resistance to the penetration of capitalism by the Turkana of Kenya. |
| Included Work | Shell-Duncan, Bettina, 1963- Health and morbidity, ethnomedical and epidemiological perspectives. |
| Included Work | Shell-Duncan, Bettina, 1963- Premarital childbearing in northwest Kenya. |
| Other author/creator | Human Relations Area Files, inc. |
| Series | eHRAF world cultures
eHRAF World Cultures. Africa. UNAUTHORIZED |
| Contents |
Settled Turkana / Benjamin C. Campbell, Paul W. Leslie, Michael A, Little, Jean M. Brainard, and Michael A. DeLuca -- Subsistence, activity patterns, and physical work capacity / Linda S. Curran and Kathleen A. Galvin -- The social organization of resource exploitation / Neville Dyson-Hudson and Rada Dyson-Hudson -- Turkana in time perspective / Rada Dyson-Hudson -- South Turkana nomadism: coping with an unpredictably varying environment / Rada Dyson-Hudson and J. Terrence McCabe -- Migration across ecosystem boundaries / Rada Dyson-Hudson and Dominique Meekers -- Dietary intake and nutritional status / Kathleen A. Galvin and Michael A. Little -- Infant care and feeding / Sandra J. Gray -- The family herds: a study of two pastoral tribes in East Africa, the Jie and Turkana ; The Turkana age organization ; A preliminary survey of the Turkana, a report compiled for the government of Kenya / P. H. Gulliver -- The Turkana / Pamela Gulliver and P. H. Gulliver -- Social networks and exchange / Brooke R. Johnson, Jr. -- Fecundity and fertility / Paul W. Leslie, Kenneth L. Campbell, Benjamin C. Campbell, Christine S. Kigondu, and Leah W. Kirumbi -- People and herds / Paul W. Leslie and Rada Dyson-Hudson -- Population replacement and persistence / Paul W. Leslie, Rada Dyson-Hudson, and Peggy H. Fry -- Ngisonyoka event calendar / Paul W. Leslie, Rada Dyson-Hudson, Eliud Achwee Lowoto, and Joseph Munyesi -- Synthesis and lessons / Paul W. Leslie, Michael A. Little, Rada Dyson-Hudson, and Neville Dyson-Hudson -- Environmental variations in the South Turkana ecosystem boundaries / Michael A. Little, Rada Dyson-Hudson, Neville Dyson-Hudson, and Nancy Winterbauer -- Framework and theory / Michael A. Little, Rada Dyson-Hudson, Paul W. Leslie, and Neville Dyson-Hudson -- Ecology of South Turkana / Michael A. Little, Rada Dyson-Hudson, and J. Terrence McCabe -- Infant, child, and adolescent growth, and adult physical status / Michael A. Little, Sandra J. Gray, Ivy L. Pike, and Mutuma Mugambi -- References / edited by Michael A. Little and Paul W. Leslie -- Nomadic movements / J. Terrence McCabe, Rada Dyson-Hudson, and Jan Wienpahl -- Culture summary, Turkana ; Cattle bring us to our enemies: Turkana ecology, politics, and raiding in a disequilibrium system ; Success and failure, the breakdown of traditional drought coping institutions among the pastoral Turkana of Kenya ; The failure to encapsulate: resistance to the penetration of capitalism by the Turkana of Kenya / J. Terrence McCabe -- Health and morbidity: ethnomedical and epidemiological perspectives / Bettina Shell-Duncan, J. Karen Shelley, and Paul W. Leslie -- Premarital childbearing in northwest Kenya, challenging the concept of illegitimacy / Bettina Shell-Duncan and Matthew Wimmer. |
| Scope and content |
This collection of 30 documents covers cultural, economic and environmental information about the Turkana circa 1888 to 2004. The works of Philip and Pamela Gulliver represent the oldest most comprehensive ethnographic information available on Turkana culture and society. Commissioned in 1948-1950 as part of the British colonial research program on Kenya, one of these documents surveys the economic, social and cultural dimensions of Turkana animal husbandry, alternative livelihoods, land tenure, law, life cycles and religious practices. The other provides an overview of the Turkana natural environment, population dynamics, cultural character, household and family organization, friendship, lineages and clanships, community and territorial organization, age-set system, marriage rules, raiding, in-group justice, and religion and magic. The remaining documents focus on the cultural logics of pastoralism and age sets. Many of the documents in this collection were products of a large, long-term, multi-disciplinary research on Turkana ecosystem conducted in 1980-1996 under the auspices of the National Science Foundation and the Norwegian Agency for International Development. Together, these documents seek to understand the complex relationships of social, political, and ecological factors affecting the Turkana. Four of these documents focus on the cultural dimensions of nomadic pastoralism with particular reference to how and why nomadic herders move across different landscapes. Three documents focus on climate and environmental issues affecting the Turkana. Coverage includes the vagaries of adverse weather and unpredictable rainfall patterns, and Turkana coping strategies against cyclical droughts. Nine documents discuss cultural, biological and ecological determinants of fertility, health, diet and nutrition, infant care and human growth, demographic patterns, and human-livestock relationships. Three documents provide general cultural and historical information with particular reference to Turkana ethnic history, dynamics of social networks and exchange relationships, and bench marks for understanding major events that occurred in Turkana. Three other documents discuss the local consequences of migration, government sponsored settlement programs and global market forces in southern Turkana. One of the remaining three documents discusses the theoretical model and conceptual frameworks that shaped most of these documents, while another document synthesizes important findings of the Southern Turkana ecosystem research project. The last project document provides a comprehensive list of available references on Turkana culture, society and economy, circa 1900-1996. |
| General note | This portion of eHRAF world cultures was last updated in 2011 and is a revision and update of the microfiche file. |
| General note | Title from Web page (viewed Nov. 10, 2011). |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
