essay
Nomadic movements
Turkana herders of the dry savanna : ecology and biobehavioral response of nomads to an uncertain environment • Oxford • Published In 1999 • Pages: 108-121
By: McCabe, J. Terrence, Dyson-Hudson, Rada, Wienpahl, Jan.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This document summarizes the causes and consequences of livestock mobility by nomadic herd owners in Southern Turkana. Based on detailed reconstructions of the movements of four herding families in Ngisonyoka over a period of more than three years, the document illustrates the complexity of nomadic pastoralism which was often misunderstood by developers and scholars alike. The study reveals that pastoral mobility is not an exclusive response to either environmental conditions or political events as previous studies tend to argue. Instead, it is a complex decision in which all environmental, political and social factors are important.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Pastoral activities
- Annual cycle
- Functional and adaptational interpretations
- Instigation of war
- Aftermath of combat
- Social relationships and groups
- Settlement patterns
- Community structure
- Disasters
- Environmental quality
- Domesticated animals
- 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
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Anthropologist
- 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
- Teferi Abate Adem; 2009
- 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
- 1950-1982
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Turkana, Kenya
- NotesAdditional notes
- J. Terrence McCabe, Rada Dyson-Hudson, and Jan Wienpahl
- For bibliographical references see document 24: Little and Leslie
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 99219983
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Turkana (African people)