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The Turkana
Central Nilo-Hamites • (7) • Published In 1953 • Pages: 53-86, 100-101
By: Gulliver, Pamela, Gulliver, P. H..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This source provides an overview of Turkana environment, economy, society, political organization, and religion. The topics discussed by the authors include population, physical environment, cultural character, dress, crafts, animal husbandry and other subsistence activities, diet, transhumance and settlement pattern, migration, household organization, nuclear family organization and relations, lineage and clan organization and relations, friendship, territorial and community organization, the age-set system, raiding, the marriage system, mechanisms for adjusting grievances and applying sanctions, and religion and magic.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Property in movables
- Household
- Inheritance
- Informal in-group justice
- Kin relationships
- Lineages
- Clans
- Offenses against life
- Sex and marital offenses
- Offenses against the person
- Sanctions
- Age stratification
- Nuptials
- Majority
- Normal garb
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Turkana
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2010
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Africa
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Eastern Africa
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Gerald Reid ; 1989
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1948-1950
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1940-1953
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- vicinity of Lake Turkana (Lake Rudolf), Kenya
- NotesAdditional notes
- Pamela Gulliver and P. H. Gulliver
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 100-101)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 54001756
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Turkana (African people)