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Culture summaryessay 2011 • McCabe, J. Terrence
Turkana • Africa > Eastern Africa
This is a culture summary of the Turkana. Information is presented on major aspects of the Turkana culture....Cattle bring us to our enemiesBook 2004 • McCabe, J. Terrence
Turkana • Africa > Eastern Africa
This book examines how individual Turkana herd owners make decisions about mobility, livestock, and land use in an environment characterized by aridity, unpredictability, insecurity, and ethnic violence. Based on detailed ethnographic data from a mul...Success and failurearticle 1990 • McCabe, J. Terrence
Turkana • Africa > Eastern Africa
This article contrasts the traditional drought coping institutions of two Turkana communities from two contrasting locations (one in the north, the other in the south). It shows indigenous drought coping institutions of northern Turkana had begun to ...The failure to encapsulateessay 1994 • McCabe, J. Terrence
Turkana • Africa > Eastern Africa
This document focuses on aspects of Turkana resistance to the penetration of capitalism. It shows that as the Turkana are drawn into larger political and economic systems their viability as subsistence livestock herders is threatened. In order to sur...Nomadic movementsessay 1999 • McCabe, J. Terrence et al.
Turkana • Africa > Eastern Africa
This document summarizes the causes and consequences of livestock mobility by nomadic herd owners in Southern Turkana. Based on detailed reconstructions of the movements of four herding families in Ngisonyoka over a period of more than three years, t...South Turkana nomadismBook 1985 • Dyson-Hudson, Rada & McCabe, J. Terrence
Turkana • Africa > Eastern Africa
This study of South Turkana pastoralism is part of a larger, long-term, multi-disciplinary study of the Turkana ecosystem supported by the National Science Foundation and the Norwegian Agency for International Development. Titled the South Turkana Ec...Ecology of South Turkanaessay 1999 • Little, Michael A. et al.
Turkana • Africa > Eastern Africa
This document describes the ecology of South Turkana which is characterized by fluctuations and unpredictability. Based on available records and closer observation of climate, weather, vegetations, ecological zones, soil types, topography and river s...