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.
Subjects
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
culture
Turkana
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)