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Title

The scattering time : Turkana responses to colonial rule / John Lamphear.

Author

Lamphear, John.

Publication

Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1992.

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Description

xxiii, 308 p. : ill., maps; 23 cm.

Summary

"This is a study of the responses, especially the armed resistance, of the Turkana people of north-western Kenya to British colonial administration in the early twentieth century. From their first encounters with the colonial vanguard in the 1890s to the final surrender of the great Diviner, Loolel Kokoi, in 1926 many Turkana resisted imperial conquest. Even after the imposition of colonial rule, they continued to oppose the administration through a variety of strategies."--BOOK JACKET. "This is the first full study of the pastoral Turkana people. In exploring their responses to European colonialism John Lamphear makes extensive use of oral sources, as well as archival and published material. His analysis is also intended as an exercise in military history, and it addresses the fundamental question of why some African societies met the European advance with armed resistance while others did not. The Scattering Time makes an important contribution to the historiography of the imperial conquest of Africa and especially Kenya."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

Oxford studies in African affairs

Uniform Title

Oxford studies in African affairs.

Subject

• Geschichte (1890-1926)
• Turkana (African people) > Government relations
• Turkana (African people) > Sources
• Great Britain > Colonies > Africa
• Great Britain > Race relations
• Turkana (Kenya) > Sources

Genre/Form

• History
• Sources

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

List of Maps -- List of Abbreviations -- Notes on Citations of Oral Interviews -- Notes on Orthography and Pronunciation -- Glossary -- Introduction (starting p. 1) -- 1 The Turkana and Eturkan (starting p. 5) -- 2 The People of Blood and the People of Water: The Rise of Turkana Diviners in the Later Nineteenth Century (starting p. 27) -- 3 The Vulture from the Sky (starting p. 48) -- 4 'Let No Man Grasp My Arm': The Establishment of British Administration in the South 1903-1913 (starting p. 77) -- 5 'Those with Angry Bowels': Developments in Northern Eturkan 1903-1913 (starting p. 103) -- 6 Ekaru Apumpum: 'The Time of Gunfire' (starting p. 123) -- 7 'The War of Apara and the War of Kokoi': The Escalation of Turkana Resistance to the end of 1917 (starting p. 149) -- 8 Apetaret: 'The Scattering' (starting p. 172) -- 9 The Time of Engolekume: The Administration of Turkana District 1919-1923 (starting p. 199) -- 10 Ekaru Ekwakoit: 'The Time of the White Bone' (starting p. 221) -- Conclusion: A Military Analysis (starting p. 255) -- Appendix: List of Informants who Participated in the Oral Interviews (starting p. 279) -- Bibliography (starting p. 287) -- Index (starting p. 301)

ISBN

0198202261

LCCN

^^^91026328^

OCLC

• 24218000
• SCSB-12370367

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library