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Premarital childbearing in northwest Kenyaarticle 1999 • Shell-Duncan, Bettina & Wimmer, Matthew
Turkana • Africa > Eastern Africa
This article discusses the social and cultural context that made premarital fertility widespread and socially acceptable among the Turkana. The most important of this concerns the meaning of marriage which in Turkana is not a social trigger for the o...Health and morbidityessay 1999 • Shell-Duncan, Bettina et al.
Turkana • Africa > Eastern Africa
This document examines the consequences of multiple stresses of pastoral experience in a harsh, arid, semi-desert environment, and evaluates bio-behavioral responses of the Turkana people. It shows that a comprehensive understanding of determinants o...