SLU Anthropology Department>Faculty His study FisherHunters and Neolithic Pastoralists in East turkana, with womenin East africa and the Third World, development issues, and indigenous http://web.stlawu.edu/anthropology/faculty.html
Extractions: Dr. Shinu Abraham (Visiting Assistant Professor, Ph.D. U Pennsylvania) has done archaeological fieldwork in Egypt, Israel, India, and the US. Her research focuses on ancient Indo-Roman trade and the emergence of social complexity in Late Iron Age/Early Historic South India, the archaeology of ethnic identity, the rise of complex societies, and archaeological theory. Most recently, she directed a field survey project in the southern Indian state of Kerala designed to re-evaluate early South Indian ceramic and mortuary material culture. Her course offerings include ancient civilizations; archaeology of South Asia, archaeology and identity; and science and pseudoscience in archaeology. Email: sabraham@stlawu.edu Phone: 315-229-5723 Dr. John Barthelme (Associate Professor, Ph.D. Berkeley) has done archaeological work for many years in East Africa. His study Fisher-Hunters and Neolithic Pastoralists in East Turkana, Kenya appeared as a Cambridge Monograph in African Archaeology, and he has published numerous papers on his research. Every two to three years he runs an archeology summer field course in Kenya. He offers courses in human origins, environmental
Africa Point: Northern Wilds Adventure - 7 Nights/8 Days The turkana people inhabit the harsh desert like country northwest of Kenya around Maralal is home of the Samburu, another colorful indigenous people. http://www.africapoint.com/tours1/vacation.asp?vacationid=17
Expo Times Over the ages, the 800 million indigenous African peoples have developed many The indigenous turkana ethnic group in Kenyas northwest risk losing http://www.expotimes.net/pastissues/issue010425/AAessay1.htm
Extractions: Mob: +44 07771922840 The Health Of The African Culture Today Expo Times Africa Editor Kofi Akosah-Sarpong, who was recently named Fellow of the Institute of African Renaissance, University Of Botswana, writes from Ottawa, Canada, in this soul-searching essay how the African culture was wrongly branded "primitive" and "backward", and how it can rather be used in the socio-political, economic and agricultural development of the continent in light of the bubbling African Renaissance process.
MEMORANDUM THE CASE FOR THE RECOGNITION AND PROTECTION OF THE These peoples in Kenya include the Maasai, Samburu, turkana, Ogiek, Sengwer, African customary law which governs indigenous peoples - recognizes only http://www.ogiek.org/sitemap/case-memorandum.htm
Extractions: This memorandum has been prepared and submitted to the Constitution of Kenya Review Commission by members of pastoralist and hunter-gatherer communities in Kenya. Pastoralists and hunter-gatherers (PHG) have identified themselves as indigenous peoples owing to their culture, relationship and spiritual attachment to their ancestral and traditional territories, in Kenya, and seek to have the new Kenyan Constitution recognize them as such. 2. This Constitution shall obligate the State to recognize the rights of indigenous peoples as stipulated by various international instruments and standards, specifically, ILO Convention 169, the United Nations Declaration on Persons belonging to Ethnic Minorities, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, amongst others, mentioned in this memorandum.
Fourth World Bulletin, Spring/Summer 1996 Instead, they now face losing more land, as nonindigenous people Other pastoralpeoples, including the turkana, Samburu, and the Kalenjin,2 also have http://carbon.cudenver.edu/public/fwc/Issue10/Africa/maasai-2.html
Extractions: A FRICA At the 1993 meeting of the UNWGIP and also at the 1993 Vienna World Conference on Human Rights, the MDA articulated the major problems that currently threaten Maasai culture and identity. The delegation presented testimony describing the ecological degradation of Maasailand, the lack of adequate educational facilities, Maasai displacement at the hands of competing peoples, and the misappropriation of funds earmarked for indigenous development projects. Foremost among the MDA's concerns is the desire to recover lands in Kenya's Rift Valley Province, which were lost through dispossession over the past century. Because Maasai culture is inextricably bound to the land, their concern is understandable; dispossession of territory threatens to obliterate their culture. In addition to its fear of increasing landlessness, the MDA explains that the Maasai have also been unable to achieve compensation for lands already taken from them. In particular, a great part of Maasailand was set aside for game reserves and national parks to expand Kenya's tourist economy, but to date, the Maasai have not benefitted from that development. Instead, they now face losing more land, as non-indigenous people attempt to buy it (or otherwise take it) from them. And while encroachment disrupts the cultural integrity of the Maasai, unsound farming methods used by non-indigenous peoples further upset the delicate ecological balance of the Rift Valley. The MDA claims that the unrestrained use of the herbicides, pesticides and fertilizers has polluted water sources in grazing areas.
IK Monitor 1(3) pastoralists the turkana People (Kenya) and the Negev Bedouin (Israel) social Although the examples used are related to indigenous SWC in africa, http://www.nuffic.nl/ciran/ikdm/1-3/communications/research.html
Extractions: As a first step, the research team surveyed different types of hand tools used by female agriculture workers in Thailand: in Buri Ram province in the northeast, Lampang province in the north, Nakhon Sri Thammarat in the south, and in the eastern provinces of Chanthaburi and Trat. Two of the main crops in these areas are rice and rubber. Considerable use is made of hand tools instead of modern machinery. As many as 16 different hand tools are used in rice farming and 12 in rubber cultivation. Many of the women interviewed during the survey expressed dissatisfaction with certain hand tools. Some of them would like to improve these tools themselves but do not know how. One example is the krae , a small hand tool commonly used for harvesting paddy. It causes extreme discomfort when used for long periods. In addition to studying indigenous hand tools, the research team is also examining the possibilities of modifying certain indigenous practices, and perhaps even totally replacing them with suitable equipment. An example is the tradition of threshing rice by foot. This could be done instead by a small pedal-operated paddy thresher especially designed for women.
Références Contemporary nomadic and pastoral peoples africa and Latin America. Conservation and indigenous peoples a study of convergent interests , pp. http://www.fao.org/docrep/t6260f/t6260f0p.htm
Extractions: Table des matières Précédente Suivante Abu Sin, M. El-H. 1983. Livestock economy and attitude of tenants in Rahad and Khashm el-Girba projects: a comparative study , Rahad Agricultural corporation/ Ford Foundation, Univ. of Khartourn. Abu-Lughod, L. 1984. "Change and Egyptian bedouins", Cultural Survival Quarterly Adams, M. 1982. "The Baggara problem: attempts at modern change in southern Darfur and southern Kordofan (Sudan)", Development and change Adegboye, R.O. et al A socioeconomic study of Fulani nomads in Kwara State , Federal Livestock Department (Kaduna), Ibadan. Ahrned, A.G.M. n.d. "Nomadic competition in the Funj area", Sudan Notes and Records , Khartoum. Ahmed, A.G.M. et al. 1976. Jonglei soclo-economic research team interim report , Executive Organ Development projects in Jonglei area, Rep. of Sudan. Ahmed, A.G.M. 1978. Integrated rural development: problems and strategies. The case of the Dinka and the Nuer of the Jonglei project area in the Sudan , Executive Organ Development Projects in Jonglei area, report no.8, Rep. of Sudan. Pastoralism conference in Nigeria , Ahmadu Bello Univ., Zaria.
REFERENCES Contemporary nomadic and pastoral peoples africa and Latin America. Conservation and indigenous peoples a study of convergent interests, pp. http://www.fao.org/docrep/t6260e/t6260e09.htm
Extractions: Abu Sin, M. El-H. 1983. Livestock economy and attitude of tenants in Rahad and Khashm el-Girba projects: a comparative study, Rahad Agricultural Corporation/Ford Foundation, Univ. of Khartoum. Abu-Lughod, L. 1984. Cultural Survival Quarterly Journal d'Agriculture Traditionnel et de Botanique Applique (JATBA) Adams, M. 1982. Development and change. Adegboye, R.O. et al. A socio-economic study of Fulani nomads in Kwara State, Federal Livestock Department (Kaduna), Ibadan. Ahmed, A.G.M. n.d. Sudan Notes and Records, Khartoum. Ahmed, A.G.M. et al. Jonglei socio-economic research team interim report, Executive Organ Development projects in Jonglei area. Rep. of Sudan. Ahmed, A.G.M. 1978. Integrated rural development: problems and strategies. The case of the Dinka and the Nuer of the Jonglei project area in the Sudan, Executive Organ Development Projects in Jonglei area, report no. 8, Rep. of Sudan. Pastoralism conference in Nigeria, Ahmadu Bello Univ., Zaria. Allan, W. et al. Land holding and land usage among the plateau Tonga of Mazabuka District: a reconnaissance survey, 1945. Oxford Univ. Press, Cape Town.
GIRR No. 21 In turkana District, 75% of the households travel between 2 and 3 km to sourcesof safe among the primarily pastoralist peoples in SubSaharan africa. http://www.ossrea.net/girr/no21/no21-01.htm
Extractions: African countries south of the Sahara are affected by desertification resulting from severe drought that has caused loss of human life and large scale displacement of populations (United Nations 1984). In Kenya, for example, most of 1999 has been a difficult year for many residents because of the crop failure due to lack of rain. Turkana District has been the most affected. Apart from starvation, the drought has had the following effects on the residents of Turkana District: The other equally important effects of drought have to do with lack of water for livestock and human consumption (Marx 1975). People are forced to walk long distances in search of water. In fact, the majority of people rely on distant and unprotected wells, boreholes and ponds to survive. In Turkana District, 75% of the households travel between 2 and 3 km to sources of safe water (GOK 1998). Even when they eventually get to the water points, they have to queue up because these are few (GOK 1998). Consequently, the scarcity of water poses environmental sanitation problems. In fact, 70% of the residents of Turkana District have no access to sanitation facilities of any kind. They tend to use the bush. This leads to contraction of water related diseases like typhoid, bilharzias and dysentery (GOK 1998). The information available on rural Africa suggests that in food crises and famines, it is women who suffer the most. This is more so in pastoralist communities where women in addition to building houses, milking and watering livestock, have to perform their daily chores of child rearing and household tasks (cooking and fetching water and firewood) (Hay and Sticher 1981; IDRC 1981; Anderson and Brouch 1999). In addition, during the famine situation, women are less mobile because of their reproductive roles and are therefore unlikely to receive relief food or venture out to look for work in towns (IDRC 1981; Anderson and Brouch 1999).
WRM Bulletin Nº 65 - Africa / December 2002 africa. Ghana Promissory reforestation plans end up in unemployment from The Sengwer indigenous peoples of Kenya , http//membres.lycos.fr/sengwer/ http://www.wrm.org.uy/bulletin/65/AF.html
Extractions: AFRICA LOCAL STRUGGLES AND NEWS - Ghana: "Promissory" reforestation plans end up in unemployment Burdened by a mounting foreign debt and pushed by globalisation and trade liberalisation, Ghana, as many other West African countries, has had its ability to finance domestic public spending severely constrained. In addition most of the exports of African countries suffer decline in prices leading to overall poor returns in revenue and contributing to huge budget deficits. In a desperate bid to service debt and face their deficit, many countries in Africa including Ghana have been relying on the aggressive extraction of primary resources and not only plunder forest resources but also neglect budgeting for sustainable forest management practices.
IBS Newsletter Much of my research work was conducted among turkana pastoralists in northern emphasis on the relationships between wildlife and indigenous peoples. http://www.colorado.edu/ibs/newsletter/news9904.html
Extractions: University of Colorado IBS is proud to announce that Debbie A. Ash has been awarded the 1999 Chancellor's Employee of the Year award. She has been employed by the University for over twenty years, and since January 14, 1985, has held the position as assistant to the Director, Richard Jessor, at IBS. In a coming IBS Newsletter a more detailed profile of her service to the University, in particular IBS will be offered. We extend our most heartfelt congratulations and look forward to enjoying many more years of her continuing to be an integral part of IBS. Gilbert F. White participated in an Experts Workshop on Water Use Policy convened by the International Joint Commission (IJC) in Toronto, Canada on March 30-31. The Workshop brought together ten people from the two countries to discuss questions related to law, policy, management principles, and conservation measures as they might relate to issues being faced by the IJC, especially bearing on consumptive uses diversions in the Great Lakes Basin. On March 26 Mary Fran Myers attended the American Association of Geographers meeting in Honolulu, Hawaii. She presented the paper "Floodplain Management: History, Trends, and Options in the United States." Floodplain management in the U.S. is a relatively young concept. A half-century after first conceived by geographer
TLIO, Legacy Of Colonialism Forum, Index The turkana tribe of Kenya plans crop planting around knowledge of the behavior indigenous peoples not only have a right to preserve their way of life. http://www.tlio.org.uk/issues/legacy/leg_lang.html
Extractions: Home Links References NAIROBI, Kenya, February 8, 2001 (ENS) - Native farmers high in the Andean mountains grow abundant yields of potatoes and quinoa despite floods, frosts, and droughts. They use a system of terraces, canals and raised fields that evolved over 3,000 years ago. The Turkana tribe of Kenya plans crop planting around knowledge of the behavior of frogs and birds, such as the ground hornbill, spotted eagle owl and nightjar, which are revered as "prophets of rain." The BaAka pygmies of the Central African Republic use plants to cure many of their most common illnesses. Several plants are known and used to treat the same disease. Because they grow in different types of forest, the pygmies can cure themselves when travelling. A new report carried out on behalf of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) warns that such indigenous systems for environmentally harmonious living may soon be lost forever as a result of growing globalization. The study, based on work by hundreds of academics, claims many indigenous languages and cultures are already teetering on the brink of extinction in the face of globalization.
Ethnography And Film: A Selected Bibliography For Anthropology 1 Pp 3690 in A. Barnard J. Kenrick (eds), africas indigenous peoples firstpeoples or marginalised minorities? Edinburgh CAS; Jerome Lewis 2001 http://www.gla.ac.uk/departments/sociology/links/ethnog.htm
Extractions: home why Glasgow? research units staff ... Witchcraft among the Azande Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Applied Social Sciences For any required item not available in libraries, first consult Dr Charsley. K.G. Heider 1976 Ethnographic Film . Austin: University of Texas Press A.B. Weiner 1978 Epistemology and ethnographic reality, American Anthropologist M. Eaton (ed.) 1979 Anthropology - Reality - Cinema. The films of Jean Rouch . London: BFI I. Jarvie 1983 The problem of the ethnographic real, Current Anthropology Methodology in Anthropological Filmmaking . Gottingen: Edition Herodot T. Asch 1988 Collaboration in ethnographic filmmaking. In J.R. Rollwagen (ed.) Anthropological Filmmaking . Chur: Harwood S. Freudenthal 1988 What to tell and how to show it: issues in anthropological filmmaking. In Rollwagen op. cit. . London: Boxtree Film as Ethnography . Manchester: MUP op.cit.
Product Kakuma turkana. Dueling Struggles africa s Forgotten peoples the indigenouspeoples of turkana have lived isolated in Kenya s remote northwest for http://indybook.com/indybookcom/item.asp?item_id=11
ICE 2004 - Panel 8 Doum palms are not cultivated by turkana people, but the intense human use of doum Centre for indigenous peoples Nutrition and Environment (CINE), http://www.kent.ac.uk/anthropology/ice2004/panels/panel8.html
Extractions: Maintaining diversity in the crops upon which humanity depends requires that we pay special attention to the role that local and indigenous cultures play in shaping and maintaining agricultural biodiversity. These local cultures have domesticated many species, have spread and accepted new crops and have adapted and shaped them to meet new needs, environments and uses. The rapid pace of sociocultural change including migration and the globalisation of markets and cultural values threatens the cultural diversity that has maintained biodiversity. At the same time, as people move and cultures change, new opportunities arise for keeping and expanding the crop diversity that is essential for local livelihoods, food security, nutrition and health. The panel addresses both sides of these global phenomena.
EuropaWorld 16/2/2001 To Let Them Be Or Not To Let Them Be The turkana tribe of Kenya plan their crop planting around an intimate Other indigenous peoples cruelly trap rare animals for their fur or engage in http://www.europaworld.org/Issue22/toletthembeornottoletthembe16201.htm
Extractions: We Europeans no longer attack ethnic civilisations at the point of a sword, practising massacre and genocide in the name of Christianity or colonisation. We no longer plunder or destroy art treasures belonging to so-called 'uncivilised' people, practising a form of artistic vandalism simply because we cannot be bothered to appreciate or to understand. Nevertheless we continue to oppress divergence. Through majority languages such as English or Spanish, through the ubiquitous power of radio and television, air travel, the invasion of habitat, through global culture we are in the process of destroying ancient ways of life as efficienly and perhaps even more effectively than our more brutal ancestors.The question arises are we right to do so? A report recently published by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) highlights the extent of this destruction by analysing the fate of the world's minority languages. According to UNEP, there are between 5,000 and 7,000 languages spoken in the world today - the vast majority indigenous tongues. Approximately 2,500, they believe, are on the brink of extinction.
ETV - Educational Television Among the societies featured are the turkana tribe of Kenya, The programincludes several examples of how indigenous peoples are making the future their http://www.palomar.edu/etv/courseinfo/fall2002/video_series_descriptions/anth105
Extractions: Faces of Culture , an introductory cultural anthropology course, is a provocative study of the structure and process of culture. This telecourse features dramatic and unique film footage from around the world, embracing cultures from all continents, highlighting major life-styles, and illustrating human adaptation to environment from the beginnings of the human species to the present. This program provides a case study of how anthropologists conduct field surveys of other cultures. The program contains the case study of Napoleon Chagnon, an anthropologist who carried out an extensive study of the Yanamamo Indians of Venezuela. Over a period of several years, Dr. Chagnon spent several months living with the Yanamamo in order to obtain a complete ethnographic understanding of their culture. He explains the meaning of many anthropological terms, and the methods and techniques he used to conduct his studies, while stressing that in order to conduct a successful field study, an anthropologist must shed his or her cultural prejudices.
UNC Anthropology Faculty Publications The turkana people of northwestern Kenya are one of a handful of societies that because the turkana today, like many other pastoral peoples in africa, http://www.unc.edu/depts/anthro/faculty/book.html
Extractions: Kaja Finkler University of Pennsylvania Press, April 2000 In Experiencing the New Genetics: Family and Kinship on the Medical Frontier, Kaja Finkler brings together certain kinds of researches usually isolated from each other- a history of genetic theory, the historical emergence from it of contemporary hereditarian notions in biomedicine, and debates about kinship and family - because genetic models of inheritance revolve around these institutions. Embedded in concepts of genetic inheritance are notions about family and kin that are seen as the mediums through which inheritance flows. Finkler poses two important and interrelated questions: first, How do people experience the ideology of genetic inheritance, especially as related to their family and kin? and second, Why has genetic inheritance become a major theme in contemporary life? To explore these questions, Finkler brings in empirical data drawn from interviews with women with breast cancer, healthy women with family histories of breast cancer, and adoptees searching for their birth parents. Finkler finds these ostensibly different groups of people are united by adhering to the reigning ideology of genetic inheritance that moves them to act, albeit in very different domains and with different consequences. Finkler concludes that our current period is one dominated by the "hegemony of the gene" leading to a "medicalization of kinship."
