Nature Publishing Group Rift lakes Tanganyika 17 and turkana 18 lack precolonial history of east Africarecounted in and large-scale migration of indigenous peoples is concentrated http://www.nature.com/cgi-taf/DynaPage.taf?file=/nature/journal/v403/n6768/full/
Destinations traditional lifestyles of the indigenous peoples, living among the views of MountKilimanjaro, africas highest nomadic Borana, Rendille, turkana and Samburu http://www.robinhurtphotosafaris.com/destinations.htm
Extractions: Destinations To this day, East Africa remains the finest wildlife paradise on earth. Travelling through landscapes of staggering beauty, witnessing the fascinating traditional lifestyles of the indigenous peoples, living among the spectacular herds of game and sleeping under canvas beneath the vast African sky, stimulates all the senses; the never-to-be-forgotten experiences that provoke moments of profound reflection. As Mick Jagger wrote in our guest book, it Took me back. Africa takes people back to their roots, to childhood dreams of striped horses, spotted cats, and giraffe, creatures impossible to believe until you see them in their natural habitat, in the landscape where our own kind began. Robin Hurt Photo Safaris supports sustainable ecotourism and to this end we patronize community group ranches that promote conservation in such areas as Il Ngwesi and Namunyak in northern Kenya. Both Kenya and Tanzania are acclaimed for their political stability; the people are helpful and friendly, and officials, polite and courteous.
Search Geographic Images By LCTGM Result Set Children N. Samburu, Kenya turkana children running on Sepik River Topics Children,indigenous peoples, Clothing and Shells Durban, South africa Street scene http://image.lib.depaul.edu/GIC/SearchByLCTGMResults.asp?LCTGM=Children
James Ayers James' personal ties to, and admiration for, the indigenous peoples of the foot withthe seminomadic Samburu and turkana people in africa's Great Rift http://www.nav.cc.tx.us/westernart/ayers.htm
Extractions: The Medicine Ring, Oil, 60" x 48" James Ayers' art reflects the emotional connections he has made with the indigenous peoples he has spent time with. These connections have enabled him to develop many visual images inspired by experience, exploration, and observation of the different lands and people. These images have been enriched by James' personal ties to, and admiration for, the indigenous peoples of the world. James graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1991. He spent time traveling on foot with the semi-nomadic Samburu and Turkana people in Africa's Great Rift Valley and lived with the Hopi people of North America's Great Southwest. These experiences have given him empathy with the struggle of indigenous people to survive in the modern world and an artist's appreciation for the beauty of form, pattern, and embellishment of these cultures. His paintings can be found in collections throughout the United States. James' primary medium is oil on canvas. James finds that oil paint is an ideal medium for capturing the depth, drama and spirit of the subject matter he paints.
IBS Newsletter my 16 years of work among the turkana. systems of sustainable cultivation leftin africa. on the relationships between wildlife and indigenous peoples. http://www.colorado.edu/IBS/news/news9904.html
Extractions: University of Colorado IBS is proud to announce that Debbie A. Ash has been awarded the 1999 Chancellor's Employee of the Year award. She has been employed by the University for over twenty years, and since January 14, 1985, has held the position as assistant to the Director, Richard Jessor, at IBS. In a coming IBS Newsletter a more detailed profile of her service to the University, in particular IBS will be offered. We extend our most heartfelt congratulations and look forward to enjoying many more years of her continuing to be an integral part of IBS. Gilbert F. White participated in an Experts Workshop on Water Use Policy convened by the International Joint Commission (IJC) in Toronto, Canada on March 30-31. The Workshop brought together ten people from the two countries to discuss questions related to law, policy, management principles, and conservation measures as they might relate to issues being faced by the IJC, especially bearing on consumptive uses diversions in the Great Lakes Basin. On March 26 Mary Fran Myers attended the American Association of Geographers meeting in Honolulu, Hawaii. She presented the paper "Floodplain Management: History, Trends, and Options in the United States." Floodplain management in the U.S. is a relatively young concept. A half-century after first conceived by geographer
UNC Anthropology - Faculty Publications heritage and participating in indigenous cultural practices takes on added importancebecause the turkana today, like many other pastoral peoples in africa http://www.unc.edu/depts/anthro/faculty/book.html
Extractions: Judith Farquhar Duke University Press, May 2002 Judith Farquhar's innovative study of medicine and popular culture in modern China reveals the thoroughly political and historical character of pleasure. Ranging over a variety of cultural terrainsfiction, medical texts, film and television, journalism, and observations of clinics and urban daily life in Beijing-Appetites challenges the assumption that the mundane enjoyments of bodily life are natural and unvarying. Farquhar analyzes modern Chinese reflections on embodiedexistence to show how contemporary appetites are grounded in history. From eating well in improving economic times to memories of the late 1950s famine, from the flavors of traditional Chinese medicine to modernity's private sexual passions, this book argues that embodiment in all its forms must be invented and sustained in public reflections about personal and national life. As much at home in science studies and social theory as in the details of life in Beijing, this account uses anthropology, cultural studies, and literary criticism to read contemporary Chinese life in a materialist and reflexive mode. For both Maoist and market reform periods, this is a story of high culture in appetites, desire in collective life, and politics in the body and its dispositions.
UNDP/SL Documents: Towards A Typology Of Sustainable Livelihoods Systems and Central africa) and North africa (including Yemen groups such as the Tuareg, Fulaniand turkana. important, however, is that indigenous peoples face greater http://www.undp.org/sl/Documents/General info/Typology/typology.htm
Extractions: Towards a Typology of Sustainable Livelihoods Systems The concept of sustainable livelihoods (SL) has, in recent years, gained considerable attention among policy-makers, practitioners and academics. A SL framework provides the basis for the examination of ecological, sociological and economic factors and how their interplay shapes and influences the lives of people living in poverty. In the ecological realm, relevant elements include the natural resource base upon which the poor depend, especially common property resources. Social factors are the institutions (i.e., rules and norms) that attempt to foster cooperative behaviour within society and the formal and informal organizations that mediate this effort. And finally, economic factors centre on the production and distribution of goods and services. As one of UNDP's five corporate mandates, SL offers both a conceptual and programming framework for poverty reduction in a sustainable manner. Conceptually, livelihoods are the
Fourth World Bulletin, Spring/Summer 1996 The Maasai are pastoral seminomads indigenous to the fertile Rift Valley that runsnorth Other pastoral peoples, including the turkana, Samburu, and http://carbon.cudenver.edu/fwc/Issue10/Africa/maasai-2.html
Extractions: A FRICA At the 1993 meeting of the UNWGIP and also at the 1993 Vienna World Conference on Human Rights, the MDA articulated the major problems that currently threaten Maasai culture and identity. The delegation presented testimony describing the ecological degradation of Maasailand, the lack of adequate educational facilities, Maasai displacement at the hands of competing peoples, and the misappropriation of funds earmarked for indigenous development projects. Foremost among the MDA's concerns is the desire to recover lands in Kenya's Rift Valley Province, which were lost through dispossession over the past century. Because Maasai culture is inextricably bound to the land, their concern is understandable; dispossession of territory threatens to obliterate their culture. In addition to its fear of increasing landlessness, the MDA explains that the Maasai have also been unable to achieve compensation for lands already taken from them. In particular, a great part of Maasailand was set aside for game reserves and national parks to expand Kenya's tourist economy, but to date, the Maasai have not benefitted from that development. Instead, they now face losing more land, as non-indigenous people attempt to buy it (or otherwise take it) from them. And while encroachment disrupts the cultural integrity of the Maasai, unsound farming methods used by non-indigenous peoples further upset the delicate ecological balance of the Rift Valley. The MDA claims that the unrestrained use of the herbicides, pesticides and fertilizers has polluted water sources in grazing areas.
Untitled Document These peoples are bounded in the north by desert and cultural differences betweenthe turkana and Samburu contends that there existed an indigenous concept of http://web.africa.ufl.edu/asq/v5/v5i2a5.htm
Extractions: Contemporary Perspectives on East African Pastoralism The Pastoral Continuum: The Marginalization of Tradition in East Africa . Paul Spencer. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2000. Pp. 302. The recent severe drought in northern Kenya dramatically illustrates the need to broaden our understanding about African pastoralism. According to the United Nations World Food Program, nearly thirty-five percent of children under five are suffering from malnutrition in the region. The food aid agency describes Wajir District as virtually without cattle, and other sources have put the loss of cattle in the north as high as seventy percent. As donor agencies consider what they can do to alleviate the hunger and suffering of the millions affected by the catastrophe, they would do well to consult the two volumes discussed here. Spencer's impressive monograph is the product of more than forty years work by one of the doyens of British anthropology and The Poor are Not Us represents the discerning contributions of leading scholars in Europe and the United States ably integrated by its two editors. Both books speak to the related issues of poverty and development.
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Extractions: THE LAND OF JILALI : TRAVELS THROUGH KENYA'S DROUGHT-STRICKEN NORTH. Paul Goldsmith This is the journal of the journeys of a Kenya Agricultural Research Institute (KARI) team studying natural resource management in Marsabit District. Our missionto assess environmental degradation, and how sedentarisation may be contributing to desertification around settlements and on the range. As we zoom across the flat hardpan of the Chalbi desert, the sun is spreading its soft, brilliant blanket over the silhouette of Mt. Kulal. We pass small Rendille camels from the fora satellite camps, grazing in the twilight, unfazed by our speed. We are in no hurry, and on a twilight break we inspect the Chalbi's crusty, salt-impregnated surface. When precipitation exceeds evaporation, insoluble minerals and salts are leached out of the soil. Eons of rainfall have concentrated soda in the wind-scoured floor of this former inland sea. Once upon a time, this was a very lush land. It is early June, 2000. Kenya is hurtling toward a massive combined crisis of power shortfalls, water rationing, and shrinking informal sector employment. The drought-crippled economy is fueling new and unique expressions of social tension: rioting school children in Nairobi capture a Tusker beer truck, and drink it dry.
Africa Point: Kenya Travel Information Languages English, Swahili, indigenous. peoples. and Meru) arrived from West Africawhile the Nilotic speakers (Maasai, Luo, Samburu and turkana) came from the http://www.africapoint.com/travel/kenyamore.htm
Extractions: Africa Point: Kenya Travel Information Visas, Health, Tourist Attractions, Economy, Maps, Peoples, History and other Useful Travel Info. Also Bookings for Safaris, Tours, Vacations, Hotels and Rental Cars in Kenya. Hotels Cars Tours, Safaris and Vacations Kenya Newspapers ... Kenya Map Kenya: Travel Basics Destination Facts Activities Reading ... l Nature and Attractions Nature On Africa's east Coast, Kenya straddles the equator and shares a border with Somalia, Ethiopia, Sudan, Uganda and Tanzania. Its coast is lapped by the Indian Ocean and it shares the vast waters of Lake Victoria with its western neighbours. The Rift Valley and central highlands area form the backbone of the country, and this is where Kenya's scenery is at its most spectacular. The humid coastal belt includes the Tana River estuary and a string of good beaches. Western Kenya takes in the fertile fringes of Lake Victoria and some prime game parks. The vast, arid north-eastern region is where Kenya is at its wildest and most untouched by the modern world. Kenya's flora and fauna defies easy description. The vast plains of the south are dotted with flat-topped acacia trees, thorn bushes and the distinctive bottle-shaped baobab tree. On the rarified slopes of Mt Elgon and Mt Kenya, bamboo forests sprout and even higher up is the bizarre groundsel tree, with its huge cabbage-like flowers, and giant lobelias with long spikes. If you're more into fur and feathers, then head for the teeming game parks. Lions, buffalos, elephants, leopards and rhinos all cavort openly in at least two of the major parks. Endangered animals such as the black rhino are slowly making a comeback and sanctuaries for these creatures can be visited in Tsavo and Lake Nakuru national parks.
Hotelier Web - 21/Green Hotelier/January 2001/TopTips ecotourism projects demonstrate that involving the indigenous peoples in the The turkana,one of the most fiercely proud tribes in africa, have lived http://www.ihei.org/HOTELIER/hotelier.nsf/content/b1c2h3c4.html
Extractions: The participatory master plan process used for the Kapawi project set new trends. Individuals from several communities helped to collect drawings of the area made by the Achuar themselves. Their maps contained information about soil types, forests, water and swamps, and documented the trails used by people. A zoning plan was then drawn up designating tourist, fishing and hunting areas. Modern cartographic methods were then combined with Achuar knowledge to make official maps of the area.
Nina G The famous skeleton of turkana Boywhich belonged to 1,000 years-from parts ofWest africa near the effect can be seen in the indigenous peoples who live http://www.arts.arizona.edu/mar337/readings/JablonskiChaplin--Skin.htm
Extractions: READINGS Nina G. Jablonski and George Chaplin "Skin Deep " Scientific American (October 2002). Throughout the world, human skin color has evolved to be dark enough to prevent sunlight from destroying the nutrient folate but light enough to foster the production of vitamin D. Among primates, only humans have a mostly naked skin that comes in different colors. Geographers and anthropologists have long recognized that the distribution of skin colors among indigenous populations is not random: darker peoples tend to be found nearer the equator, lighter ones closer to the poles. For years, the prevailing theory has been that darker skins evolved to protect against skin cancer. But a series of discoveries has led us to construct a new framework for understanding the evolutionary basis of variations in human skin color. Recent epidemiological and physiological evidence suggests to us that the worldwide pattern of human skin color is the product of natural selection acting to regulate the effects of the sun's ultraviolet (UV) radiation on key nutrients crucial to reproductive success. THE EVOLUTION OF SKIN PIGMENTATION is linked with that of hairlessness, and to comprehend both these stories, we need to page back in human history. Human beings have been evolving as an independent lineage of apes since at least seven million years ago, when our immediate ancestors diverged from those of our closest relatives, chimpanzees. Because chimpanzees have changed less over time than humans have, they can provide an idea of what human anatomy and physiology must have been like. Chimpanzees' skin is light in color and is covered by hair over most of their bodies. Young animals have pink faces, hands, and feet and become freckled or dark in these areas only as they are exposed to sun with age. The earliest humans almost certainly had a light skin covered with hair. Presumably hair loss occurred first, then skin color changed. But that leads to the question, When did we lose our hair?
Product File - Mainly For Self-sufficiency communities should be protected and indigenous peoples should share in differentparts of africa, notably Botswana Ritual hunting scene, turkana Lake (Kenya). http://www.fao.org/docrep/v2535e/v2535e05.htm
Extractions: Lubricating development - fats and oilseeds ... Children gathering the fruit of Santaloides afzelii for food (Guinea). The examples that follow are divided into those products whose use is mainly or most significantly for subsistence and those that are sought-after mainly for trade use. In practice, most classes of non-wood forest products often serve both commercial and noncommercial uses. The pattern of use is, moreover, liable to change quite rapidly in response, for example, to changing market demand or seasonal fluctuations in supply. Forest farming and food products Foods derived from forests and trees may not be consumed in great quantities in comparison to main food staples but they add variety to diets, improve the palatability of staple foods and provide essential vitamins, protein and calories. They are also used extensively as snack foods eaten, for example, while working in the herds or herding livestock. Forest foods can offer vital insurance against malnutrition or famine during times of seasonal food shortage or emergencies such as droughts, floods or wars. While forest gathering activities are not restricted to groups that are poor, landless or nomadic, these are the groups most likely to be affected by reductions in the availability of such foods as the forest resource is reduced, degraded or closed to access as a result of privatization or nationalization.
Environment to Famine Livestock Raiding in turkana, Kenya. Dalbridge, South africa IndicatorPress, 1994 The Law of the Mother Protecting indigenous peoples in Protected http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/cm/africana/environment.htm
Extractions: Comprehensive page with a wide breadth of materials including texts of UNEP produced documents and policy papers, treaties and accords (e.g. Nairobi and Rio Declarations), announcements and descriptions of current UNEP funded projects ongoing in Africa and elsewhere. The site contains links to a variety of other environmental related sites. Africa South of the Sahara: Selected Internet Resources African related website compiled by Stanford University Hoover Institute Library's Africa Collection curator Karen Fung. Great links page that contains a great many links to organizations and other environmentally related websites (as well as many other topics, such as development, health etc). The site can be searched by topic, region or country and is an excellent place to begin your research. There are links to academic, scientific, and popular sites. UNDP A comprehensive website sponsored by the UN Development Program with information on development projects being sponsored by UNDP around the world, policy papers and reports, and links to all the UNDP satellite offices around the world. The site can be searched by region, making more specific searches easy to do.
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Extractions: Below are some of the comments that we have received from clients that have gone on safari with us. " Exhilarating is the word one can aptly use to describe my journey to Kenya. Hooked up by African Touch Safaris, the trip into the depths of the African wildlife has never brought alive." " I must say that I was also very impressed with the warm & cordial reception that was accorded to me by the tour firm, with everything time timed to the minute I was to say the least treated to the value of every cent I paid." "Deep in the wild, the sight of Lions, Elephants, Monkeys and other animals was an exiting as it was entertaining". "And for any other persons who have money to spend in Kenya & East Africa then African Touch Safaris is the best guide firm for you." Bonny Field. "Hi Everybody, I remember my trip to Kenya early this year, with a lot of nostalgia, when I decided to visit Kenya for the first time and see for myself the famed resorts, little did I know that I will end up immersed in the most memorable visit. Right from the time I landed I must confess that I was taken care of properly. When we went visiting it was not only the animals but also the unites play of culture and environmental conservations of the indigenous peoples. The Maasai and the Ogiek, I learned have a rich knowledge on environmental conservations.
Index00 turkana Herders of the Dry Savanna. Cloth, Dress, and Art Patronage in africa. Oxford1999. indigenous peoples and the Legacy of Perestroika. Edmonton 1999. http://www.anthropos-journal.de/index00/body_index00.htm
Extractions: INDEX 2000 AUTHOR INDEX GEOGRAPHICAL INDEX Articles Africa ... Oceania AUTHOR INDEX Articles Battesti, Vincent: Les échelles temporelles des oasis du Jérid tunisien 419 Bednarik, Robert G.: Crossing the Timor Sea by Middle Palaeolithic Raft 37 Blust, Robert: The Origin of Dragons 519 DasGupta, Sudipta: Prehistoric Context of Mayurbhanj District of Orissa (India) 485 Dilley, Roy M.: The Question of Caste in West Africa with Special Reference to Tukulor Craftsmen 149 Dinslage, Sabine, Rudolf Leger, and Anne Storch: Space and Gender. Cultural Limitations of Space in Two Communities of Northeastern Nigeria 121 Droz, Yvan: L'ethos du mûramati kikuyu. Schème migratoire, différenciation sociale et individualisation au Kenya 87 Frieß, Michaela: Die europäische Kultivierung einer südseeinsulanischen Tradition. Tätowierung als Kennzeichnung individualisierter sexueller, kultureller und nationaler Identität 167 Ganzer, Burkhard: Kulturelle Distanz und "ethnographic refusal". Zur Ethnographie iranischer Nomadengesellschaften 65 Giessen, Hans W.:
World Food Habits Bibliography: Ecology status; africa; Kenya; Ethiopia; turkana; Borana famine; seasonal hunger; ecology;social relations; africa. and traditional food systems of indigenous peoples. http://lilt.ilstu.edu/rtdirks/ECOLOGY.html
Extractions: FOOD AND CULTURE Ecology and Food Systems Atkins, P.J. 1997. The Maltese food system and the Mediterranean. GeoJournal. Vol. 41: [food system; Europe; Malta] Barry, H. et al. 1959. Relation of child training to subsistence economy. American anthropologist. Vol. 61:51-63. [food system; enculturation; children] Beardsworth, Alan and Teresa Keil. 1997. Sociology on the menu. New York: Routledge. [introductory textbook; development of modern food system; health, and body image; meaning; meat-eating and vegetarianism] Becker, Laurence. 2000. Garden money buys grain: food procurement patterns in Malian village. Human ecology. Vol. 28:219. [food system; Africa; Mali] Bernus, E. 1988. Seasonality, climate fluctuations, and food supplies. Coping with uncertainity in food supply. Oxford University Press. [change; ecology; nomadic pastoral food systems; Africa; Sahel] Bindon, J.R. 1994. Some implications of the diet of children in American Samoa. Collegium Anthropologicum. Vol. 18: [change; ecology; child nutrition; Oceania; Samoa] Blaxter, Kenneth. 1980. Food chains and human nutrition. Applied Science Publishers. [food systems; history]
Tribe Tribe Kenya Samburu Tribe Kenya turkana Tribe Irian legendary portraits of portraitsof indigenous peoples of Peru Asia, the Middle East, africa, South America http://www.powerhousebooks.com/tribe/tribe.html
Information On Kenya - Africa On Fire Kipsigis 1,055,000; Nandi 596,000; Maasai 382,000; turkana 340,000; Tugen of the Luoand Kikuyu, the two dominant peoples, in opposition indigenous Marginal 11 http://www.africaonfire.org/kenya.htm
Extractions: T ourist publications describe Kenya's beauty in glowing terms that the skeptic could naturally suspect. In this case, though, they tell the truth, maybe even under estimate a bit. From stars that hang like small moons, to lakes pink with flamingos; from the Obedears Mountains to the valleys where elephants, ibis, and wild antelope play, to the view from the mountains around the Rift Valley; Kenya took our breath away. Kenya is a land of contrasts, both in geography and population. Her topography includes stark desert in the north, lush farmland in the central and western regions, thick forest in the mountains. And among its people, though some have attained and are attaining wealth, most Kenyans still live in great poverty. But as our team traveled through this nation, the thing that struck us most is that Kenya is facing a crucial hour. For 34 years since her independence, God has kept Kenya politically safe from the turmoil that has swirled around her. God has blessed her with stability and with a government that has been friendly to the Church. You may have heard of some turmoil arising as scheduled elections once again draw near. Yet we were constrained by the Holy Spirit that Kenya's future does not rest in the hands of her political leaders, it rests with the Church.
