essay
Synthesis and lessons
Turkana herders of the dry savanna : ecology and biobehavioral response of nomads to an uncertain environment • Oxford • Published In 1999 • Pages: 354-373
By: Leslie, Paul W..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Synthesizing the main findings of a multi-disciplinary research project, this document argues that the Turkana have been successful over the short term of several centuries in establishing a pattern of social organization, subsistence, and environmental manipulation that has allowed them to survive and even expand to their present number and geographic extent. This has been achieved by mixes of competition and cooperation, planning and opportunism, and sophisticated livestock management and mobility.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Pastoral activities
- Annual cycle
- Topography and geology
- Environmental quality
- Functional and adaptational interpretations
- Disasters
- Diet
- Infant feeding
- Exchange transactions
- Social relationships and groups
- Gift giving
- Family relationships
- Cultural goals
- Labor supply and employment
- External migration
- Competition
- Research and development
- 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 TypesThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Anthropologist
- Ecologist
- 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
- 1980-1996
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1980-1999
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Turkana, Kenya
- NotesAdditional notes
- Paul W. Leslie, Michael A. Little, Rada Dyson-Hudson, and Neville Dyson-Hudson
- For bibliographical references see document 24: Little and Leslie
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 99219983
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Turkana (African people)