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Cattle bring us to our enemies : Turkana ecology, politics, and raiding in a disequilibrium system / J. Terrence McCabe.
- Title
- Cattle bring us to our enemies : Turkana ecology, politics, and raiding in a disequilibrium system / J. Terrence McCabe.
- Author
- McCabe, J. Terrence.
- Publication
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2004.
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- Description
- xvii, 301 p. : ill., maps; 23 cm.
- Summary
- Based on 16 years of fieldwork among the pastoral Turkana people, McCabe examines how individuals use the land and make decisions about mobility, livestock and the use of natural resources in an environment characterized by aridity, unpredictability, insecurity and violence.
- Series Statement
- Human-environment interactions
- Uniform Title
- Human-environment interactions.
- Project Muse UPCC books
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-290) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- 1. Introduction -- 2. Review of the literature and theoretical framework -- 3. Turkana : environmental, historical, and social overviews -- 4. Ngisonyoka ecology : land and livestock -- 5. Cattle bring us to our enemies -- 6. Introduction to the four families -- 7. Migration and decision making : the four families -- 8. Data analysis -- 9. Livestock dynamics and the formation and growth of families -- 10. Aggregate and group movement -- 11. Conclusions and discussion -- App. South Turkana Ecosystem Project (STEP) publications.
- ISBN
- 0472098780 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0472068784 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2004008130^^
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library