essay
Dietary intake and nutritional status
Turkana herders of the dry savanna : ecology and biobehavioral response of nomads to an uncertain environment • Oxford • Published In 1999 • Pages: 124-145
By: Galvin, Kathleen A., Little, Michael A..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This document focuses on Ngisonyoka Turkana diet and nutritional status both within the context of pastoral productivity and savanna ecology, and health and nutritional status of members of the population. It shows that Turkana diets are mostly animal-dependent which are relatively simple and center on milk as staple, whenever feasible. There is, however, a high degree of opportunism displayed in consumption of animal foods other than milk (blood and meat), trade for cultivated products, hunting and gathering wild foods, and reliance on governmental and international food assistance.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Diet
- Nutrition
- Pastoral activities
- Dairying
- Domesticated animals
- Division of labor by gender
- Preservation and storage of food
- Food preparation
- Disasters
- Ethnozoology
- Infant feeding
- Child care
- Morbidity
- 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.
- Biologist
- 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
- 1981-1991
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1970-1999
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Turkana, Kenya
- NotesAdditional notes
- Kathleen A. Galvin and Michael A. Little
- For bibliographical references see document 24: Little and Leslie
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 99219983
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Turkana (African people)