"This book explores aspects of the socio-economic and political history of the Turkana of northern Kenya, examining the making and re-making of the regional economy via the trajectories of socio-material interaction that have structured key practices, relationships and livelihoods over the past...

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1. Verfasser:	Derbyshire, Samuel F. 1989- (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Abingdon, Oxon Routledge 2021
Schriftenreihe:	Routledge studies in African archaeology and cultural heritage Routledge studies in African archaeology and cultural heritage
Schlagworte:	Turkana (African people)
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Zusammenfassung:	"This book explores aspects of the socio-economic and political history of the Turkana of northern Kenya, examining the making and re-making of the regional economy via the trajectories of socio-material 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 socio-cultural transformation. By setting out a series of new examples established through long-term research in the region, it offers a characterisation 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 re-imagined and reshaped with each new generation in order to reconstruct accumulated memory and knowledges. Remembering Turkana provides a wide-ranging socio-historical 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"--
Beschreibung:	Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 04, 2020)
Beschreibung:	1 online resource (xx, 233 pages)
ISBN:	9781003001263 1003001262 9781000094084 1000094081 9781000093902 1000093905 9781000093995 1000093999