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Ngisonyoka event calendar
Turkana herders of the dry savanna : ecology and biobehavioral response of nomads to an uncertain environment • Oxford • Published In 1999 • Pages: 375-378
By: Leslie, Paul W., Dyson-Hudson, Rada, Lowoto, Eliud Achwee, Munyesi, Joseph.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This document provides a list of major events that occurred in Southern Turkana, circa 1905-1991.The information was collected based on numerous interviews with knowledgeable informants. The list has served researchers as a bench mark or calendar for reconstructing local history and biography.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Mathematics
- Traditional history
- Interviewing in research
- 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
- 1983-1994
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1905-1992
- 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, Rada Dyson-Hudson, Eliud Achwee Lowoto, and Joseph Munyesi
- For bibliographical references see document 24: Little and Leslie
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 99219983
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Turkana (African people)