Book
Man-animal interaction complex in goat herding of the pastoral Turkana
African Study Monographs • (1) • Published In 1982 • Pages: 13-41
By: Ohta, Itaru.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This source is a detailed study of the behavior and inter-individual relationships among goats in Turkana herds. Specifically, the author examines the proximity of young goats to their mothers, the familiarity of goats with one another within herds, the formation of large groups of goats within herds, herders' behavior, and goats' learned ability to move autonomously during herding.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Pastoral activities
- Domesticated animals
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Turkana
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2019
- 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 ; 1989
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1978-1981
- 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
- Itaru Ohta
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 36)
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Turkana (African people)