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ecology and biobehavioral response of nomads to an uncertain environment
xiv, 420 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
"This book is a multicontributor, multidisciplinary study of the Turkana, arising from a unique research project which ran for over 15 years, involving scientists from several different fields and institutions. It begins by describing the history of the Turkana people, and the dry savanna environment which they inhabit. The core of the book forms an analysis of the interactions between the Turkana people and their surroundings." "This book represents an important record of Turkana life, and in particular of their unique interactions with the savannalands they inhabit. It should be of interest across a broad spectrum of social, biological, and medical anthropologists, demographers, and human ecologists, and will be particularly welcomed by anyone studying or working with pastoral nomadic populations in East Africa and elsewhere."--Jacket.
Framework and theory / Michael A. Little, Rada Dyson-Hudson, Paul W. Leslie [and others] -- Turkana in time perspective / Rada Dyson-Hudson -- Ecology of South Turkana / Michael A. Little, Rada Dyson-Hudson, J. Terrence McCabe -- The social organization of resource exploitation / Neville Dyson-Hudson, Rada Dyson-Hudson -- Social networks and exchange / Brooke R. Johnson, Jr. -- Nomadic movements / J. Terrence McCabe, Rada Dyson-Hudson, Jan Wienpahl -- Dietary intake and nutritional status / Kathleen A. Galvin, Michael A. Little -- Subsistence, activity patterns, and physical work capacity / Linda S. Curran, Kathleen A. Galvin -- Infant care and feeding / Sandra J. Gray -- Infant, child, and adolescent growth, and adult physical status / Michael A. Little, Sandra J. Gray, Ivy L. Pike [and others] -- Health and morbidity: ethnomedical and epidemiological perspectives / Bettina Shell-Duncan, J. Karen Shelley, Paul W. Leslie -- People and herds / Paul W. Leslie, Rada Dyson-Hudson -- Fecundity and fertility / Paul W. Leslie, Kenneth L. Campbell, Benjamin C. Campbell [and others] -- Population replacement and persistence / Paul W. Leslie, Rada Dyson-Hudson, Peggy H. Fry -- Migration across ecosystem boundaries / Rada Dyson-Hudson, Dominique Meekers -- Environmental variations in the South Turkana ecosystem / Michael A. Little, Rada Dyson-Hudson, Neville Dyson-Hudson [and others] -- Settled Turkana / Benjamin C. Campbell, Paul W. Leslie, Michael A. Little [and others] -- Synthesis and lessons / Paul W. Leslie, Michael A. Little, Rada Dyson-Hudson [and others].
edited by Michael A. Little and Paul W. Leslie.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 379-405) and index.
Research monographs on human population biology