Book
South Turkana nomadism: coping with an unpredictably varying environment
Human Relations Area Files • New Haven, Connecticut • Published In 1985 • Pages: 10, 378
By: Dyson-Hudson, Rada, McCabe, J. Terrence.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This study of South Turkana pastoralism is part of a larger, long-term, multi-disciplinary study of the Turkana ecosystem supported by the National Science Foundation and the Norwegian Agency for International Development. Titled the South Turkana Ecosystem Project, the goal of the larger study is to develop a generalized model of subsistence pastoral systems. The source analyzed for the Turkana FL17 file is a detailed study of livestock management strategies among four intensively studied Ngisonyoka Turkana families in the South Turkana District of Kenya. The topics discussed by the authors include the Ngisonyoka environment, livestock characteristics, herd dynamics and productivity, and livestock movements. Appendices to this source include detailed discussions of South Turkana weather conditions, vegetation patterns, herd structure, and livestock diseases.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Pastoral activities
- Annual cycle
- Life history materials
- Settlement patterns
- Dairying
- Theoretical orientation in research and its results
- Organization and analysis of results of research
- Functional and adaptational interpretations
- 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
- Book
- 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.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Gerald Reid ; 1988
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1980-1982
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1962-1988
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Turkana area, Kenya
- NotesAdditional notes
- By Rada Dyson-Hudson and J. Terrence McCabe
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 371-378)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 85179411
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Turkana (African people)
- Turkana (African people)--Economic conditions
- Nomads--Kenya--Turkana
- Human ecology--Kenya--Turkana