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The Turkana age organization
American anthropologist • 60 • Published In 1958 • Pages: 900-922
By: Gulliver, P. H..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
The purpose of this source is to give a description of the structure and operation of the Turkana age group system. The topics discussed include initiation into adulthood, the system of alternations, age groups, the diffusion of age group names, the principles of seniority within alternations, the ecology of age groups, the activities of age groups, age groups and marriage and military organization, and the integrative functions of age groups.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Age stratification
- Community structure
- Settlement patterns
- Pastoral activities
- Annual cycle
- Majority
- Prayers and sacrifices
- Community structure
- Activities of the aged
- Artificial kin relationships
- Ornament
- Real property
- 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
- article
- 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 ; 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
- 1940-1958
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- around Lake Turkana, Kenya
- NotesAdditional notes
- P. H. Gulliver
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 922)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 17015424
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Turkana (African people)