essay
Subsistence, activity patterns, and physical work capacity
Turkana herders of the dry savanna : ecology and biobehavioral response of nomads to an uncertain environment • Oxford • Published In 1999 • Pages: 146-163
By: Curran, Linda S., Galvin, Kathleen A..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This document discusses interrelationships between health, nutrition, activity patterns, and physical work capacity among Ngisonyoka Turkana pastoral nomads. It shows that the Turkana suffer from relatively inadequate nutrition and low body fat. Yet they accomplish the hard tasks of herding in a very difficult environment by responding on two levels. First, they use day-to-day behavioral strategies to minimize exposure to heat and dehydration. Second, they use long-term cultural mechanism, tied to relative age and physical capabilities, to manage and distribute nutritional and work-related stress. Some age and occupational groups expected to, and did, bear a greater share of the stress than others.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Diet
- Pastoral activities
- Division of labor by gender
- Gender status
- Nutrition
- Labor and leisure
- Descriptive somatology
- Anthropometry
- Disasters
- Instigation of war
- Preservation and storage of food
- 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
- 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
- 1984-1986
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1984-1999
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Turkana, Kenya
- NotesAdditional notes
- Linda S. Curran and Kathleen A. Galvin
- For bibliographical references see document 24: Little and Leslie
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 99219983
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Turkana (African people)