Table of Contents:
  • 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].