Remembering Turkana : material histories and contemporary livelihoods in north-western Kenya /
This book explores aspects of the socioeconomic and political history of the Turkana of northern Kenya, examining the making and remaking of the regional economy via the trajectories of sociomaterial interaction that have structured key practices, relationships and livelihoods over the past century....
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
[2021]
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| Series: | Routledge studies in African archaeology abd cultural heritage.
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| Summary: | This book explores aspects of the socioeconomic and political history of the Turkana of northern Kenya, examining the making and remaking of the regional economy via the trajectories of sociomaterial interaction that have structured key practices, relationships and livelihoods over the past century. Traversing Turkana's constituent livelihoods and examining the historical relationships between them in relation to shifting economic, ecological and political factors, the book asks what perspective emerges from an in-depth understanding of the everyday things that have taken part in processes of substantial sociocultural transformation. By setting out a series of new examples established through long-term research in the region, it offers a characterization of Turkana's iterative transformation as the articulation of a set of long-term continuities. Investigating quotidian personal and community histories, it argues that Turkana's complex network of livelihood interactions has, on the whole, strengthened over time through its continual reformulation, as identities, livelihood practices and social institutions have been reimagined and reshaped with each new generation in order to reconstruct accumulated memory and knowledges. Remembering Turkana provides a wide-ranging sociohistorical overview of the Turkana region and people, situating critical contemporary issues within diverse bodies of literature. The characterisation of long-term change and continuity, as articulated and enacted via material culture production, use and exchange, that it offers will be of significance to a broad array of scholarly disciplines, including archaeology, history, anthropology and political science. |
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| Physical Description: | xx, 233 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780367431099 0367431092 |