essay
The Turkana
Central Nilo-Hamites • (7) • Published In 1953 • Pages: 53-86, 100-101
By: Gulliver, Pamela, Gulliver, P. H..
Abstract
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.
- HRAF PubDate
- 2010
- Region
- Africa
- Sub Region
- Eastern Africa
- Document Type
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- Gerald Reid ; 1989
- Field Date
- 1948-1950
- Coverage Date
- 1940-1953
- Coverage Place
- vicinity of Lake Turkana (Lake Rudolf), Kenya
- Notes
- Pamela Gulliver and P. H. Gulliver
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 100-101)
- LCCN
- 54001756
- LCSH
- Turkana (African people)