David Turton
Biographic Data
| ID | 84453 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Turton |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Turton |
| SIGNATURE | TURTON D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Manchester |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3839-6445 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 56 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 534 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 56 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1968 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 13 |
‘Breaking Every Rule in the Book’: The Story of River Basin Development in Ethiopia’s Omo Valley
Fracturing planners: A study of their contribution to Australia’s coal seam gas debate
Oral histories and the impact of archaeological fieldwork in contact encounters: Meeting Socrates on the Omo
Whilst there is growing concern within archaeology about the wider impact of archaeological research in general, only limited attention has so far been paid to the impact fieldwork has on local communities. Here, using examples from fieldwork with an agro-pastoral Mursi community in Ethiopia's Lower Omo Valley, we present a case in which local oral traditions are modified in response to archaeological discoveries. This illustrates a particular ex…
Lawyers in Australia's coal seam gas debate: A study of participation in recorded community forums
Delivering a “New Administrative Law”: Commonwealth-Queensland ombudsman cooperation, 1976–1981
Australia’s so-called “New Administrative Law” reforms revolutionised citizen– government interaction in the 1970s and 1980s, with initiatives such as the Administrative Appeals Tribunal and the Commonwealth Ombudsman. Previous studies have focuse
Unconventional Gas in Australia: Towards a Legal Geography
Recent commentary on future research directions for legal geography highlights the need for studies that are historically grounded and focused on human-environment interactions in rural settings. As a current, controversial land use in Australia, unconventional gas (UG) development provides an ideal lens through which researchers can investigate these themes. Utilising emerging international literature and current Australian examples, this paper …
In memoriam Katsuyoshi Fukui (18 November 1943 - 26 April 2008)
Obituary
Landscape change in the lower Omo valley, southwestern Ethiopia: Burning Patterns and Woody Encroachment in the Savanna
In this article we examine bush encroachment in a savanna ecosystem of the lower Omo Valley occupied by Mursi agro-pastoralists. Focusing on the role of fire and grazing, the main anthropogenic disturbance factors in the savanna, we compare the results of our ecological surveys with Mursi perceptions and understandings of environmental change. The main change described by Mursi is the loss of grassland over the last 30 to 40 years. Their explanat…
Wilderness, wasteland or home? Three ways of imagining the Lower Omo Valley
Since the 1960s, the lower Omo Valley of southwestern Ethiopia has been imagined by conservationists as a "wilderness", in need of urgent protection from the damaging impact of human activity. For state officials it has been an unproductive wasteland, inhabited by violence prone "nomads", in need of the political control and civilizing influence of the state. For local people it is home, a place from which they derive not only their livelihoods b…
Long-term resilience, bush encroachment patterns and local knowledge in a Northeast African savanna
Cultures of Exile: Images of Displacement. By Wendy Everett and Peter Wagstaff
This book is about the ‘cultural expression’ of exile, in European film-making, photography, writing and the visual arts. ix). The chapters are arranged in three parts, ‘Space’, ‘Time’ and ‘Body’. In Part I, Carrie Tarr examines ‘shifts in the construction of place and identity’ in two films by the Algerian-Gypsy filmmaker Tony Gatliff, Les Princes (1983) and Gadjo dilo (1998). Wendy Everett explores the ‘iconography of the road movie’ through a …
The Meaning of Place in a World of Movement: Lessons from Long-term Field Research in Southern Ethiopia
This article examines the link between people and place through a study of the ‘spatial practices’ of a small group of southern Ethiopian agro-pastoralists, the Mursi. Based upon fieldwork stretching over the past 35 years, I argue that there has been a huge change in the way the Mursi collectively imagine the world and their place within it. They have been ‘localized’, by being drawn into the ‘spatial practices’ of the Ethiopian state, and ‘marg…
Initiating Change in Highland Ethiopia: Causes and Consequences of Cultural Transformation
Lip-plates and 'the people who take photographs: Uneasy encounters between Mursi and tourists in southern Ethiopia
The Charitable Impulse: NGOs and Development in East and North-East Africa
The Politician, the Priest and the Anthropologist: Living beyond conflict in Southwestern Ethiopia
Dans la continuite des remarques de Bernard Helander (1995 en danois, 2001 traduction anglaise) sur la problematique de la resolution des conflits en Afrique contemporaine et s'appuyant sur l'etude d'un conflit violent chez les Mursi du sud-ouest de l'Ethiopie, l'A. discute ce que Helander appelle l'aire extremement complexe des interfaces entre la politique nationale plus inclusive et les interets locaux. Dans l'impossibilite de tirer des conclu…
The Mursi and the Elephant Question
Cultural Identities and Ethnic Minorities in Europe
Responses to Kibreab
Journal Article Responses to Kibreab Get access DAVID TURTON DAVID TURTON Refugee Studies Programme, University of Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Refugee Studies, Volume 12, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 419–422, https://doi.org/10.1093/jrs/12.4.419 Published: 01 January 1999
War and Ethnicity: Global Connections and Local Violence
Introduction - war and ethnicity, David Turton my neighbour, my enemy - the manipulation of ethnic identity and the origins and conduct of war in Yugoslavia, Tom Gallagher an ethnic war that did not take place - Macedonia, its minorities and its neighbours in the 1990s, Stefan Troebst Oromo national liberation, ethnicity and politics mythomoteurs in the Horn of Africa, Thomas Zitelman war in the post-World War II world - some empirical trends and…
Through Many Lenses: History and Theory in Visual Anthropology
Presentation de deux ouvrages sur l'anthropologie visuelle. Le premier, « Innovation in ethnographic film : from innocence to self-consciousness » de P. Loizos, commence par les relations entre le film documentaire et le film ethnographique. Il aborde aussi les films ethnographiques « conventionnels » qui essaient d'enregistrer la maniere dont la culture fonctionne, la maniere dont J. Rouch a approche le film ethnographique comme moyen de provoqu…
Anthropology and New Visual Technologies
Film as Ethnography
Part 1 Authority, representation and anthropological knowledge: anthropological visions - some notes on visual and textual authority, Kirsten Hastrup the lexical spaces of eye-spy, Chrisopher Pinney admissible evidence? film in anthropology, Peter Loizos film as discourse - the invention of anthropological realities, Peter Ian Crawford. Part 2 Image, audience and aesthetics: complicities of style, David MacDougall the aesthetics of ambiguity, Dai…
General/Theoretical Anthropology: Nomads in a Changing World . Carl Salzman and John G. Galaty
Anthropological Knowledge & the Culture of Broadcasting
Food Taboos, Diet, and Hunting Strategy: The Adaptation to Animals in Amazon Cultural Ecology [and Comments and Reply]
The issue of food prohibitions on such Amazonian game animals as deer is examined from an ecological perspective, in contrast to previous symbolic or structuralist views on this subject. Examined in conjunction with settlement pattern, technology, animal behavior, and habitat productivity, which together determine the food-extraction potential of a population, the avoidance of certain inherently edible species by characterizing them as inebible i…
Social Responses During Severe Food Shortages and Famine [and Comments and Reply]
Although emergency food shortages and famines have been a prominent part of human experience for thousands of years and recur somewhere on our planet almost annually, data describing behavioral and organizational responses are few and scattered. Generalizations, when not speculative, tend to be vague and frequently contradictory. Practical, humanistic, and scientific concern with how people respond when overtaken by nutritional catastrophe provid…
Anthropological Studies in Hazardous Environments: Past Trends and New Horizons [and Comments and Reply]
Losses arising from natural disasters continue to mount world-wide, though the most alarming social and economic dislocations are occurring in developing countries. How effectively social institutions protect against and adjust to catastrophic events is an issue which has generated a growing body of research. This paper surveys anthropological contributions to natural-disaster studies and considers their relevance for disaster mitigation policy. …
The Meaning of Place in a World of Movement: Lessons from Long-term Field Research in Southern Ethiopia
This article examines the link between people and place through a study of the ‘spatial practices’ of a small group of southern Ethiopian agro-pastoralists, the Mursi. Based upon fieldwork stretching over the past 35 years, I argue that there has been a huge change in the way the Mursi collectively imagine the world and their place within it. They have been ‘localized’, by being drawn into the ‘spatial practices’ of the Ethiopian state, and ‘marg…
War and Ethnicity: Global Connections and Local Violence
Introduction - war and ethnicity, David Turton my neighbour, my enemy - the manipulation of ethnic identity and the origins and conduct of war in Yugoslavia, Tom Gallagher an ethnic war that did not take place - Macedonia, its minorities and its neighbours in the 1990s, Stefan Troebst Oromo national liberation, ethnicity and politics mythomoteurs in the Horn of Africa, Thomas Zitelman war in the post-World War II world - some empirical trends and…
The Future of Pastoral Peoples
Film as Ethnography
Part 1 Authority, representation and anthropological knowledge: anthropological visions - some notes on visual and textual authority, Kirsten Hastrup the lexical spaces of eye-spy, Chrisopher Pinney admissible evidence? film in anthropology, Peter Loizos film as discourse - the invention of anthropological realities, Peter Ian Crawford. Part 2 Image, audience and aesthetics: complicities of style, David MacDougall the aesthetics of ambiguity, Dai…
Wilderness, wasteland or home? Three ways of imagining the Lower Omo Valley
Since the 1960s, the lower Omo Valley of southwestern Ethiopia has been imagined by conservationists as a "wilderness", in need of urgent protection from the damaging impact of human activity. For state officials it has been an unproductive wasteland, inhabited by violence prone "nomads", in need of the political control and civilizing influence of the state. For local people it is home, a place from which they derive not only their livelihoods b…
Greater Ethiopia: The Evolution of a Multiethnic Society
There's No Such Beast: Cattle and Colour Naming Among the Mursi
Etude des termes de couleur chez les Mursi du Sud-Ouest de l'Ethiopie, a partir du constat qu'ils ne connaissent pas d'autres termes de couleur que ceux designant les couleurs de betail. Suivant l'approche des travaux de B. et E.A. Berlin et P. Kay, analyse du fonctionnement de ce systeme, qui, a partir du modele fourni par les couleurs de betail, represente des categories de couleurs ou de formes universellement reconnues
The Konso of Ethiopia: A Study of the Values of a Cushitic People
Warfare Among East African Herders
Spontaneous resettlement after drought: An Ethiopian example
Based upon two recent periods of fieldwork among a spontaneously resettled population of cattle herders in southwestern Ethiopia, this paper is an attempt to illustrate, by a particular case, the general proposition that external aid, if it is not to be counter-productive, must meet people's needs as they themselves define them.The people in question, the Mursi, have experienced, since 1970, their worst period of drought and hunger in living memo…
Response to Drought: The Mursi of Southwestern Ethiopia
Lip-plates and 'the people who take photographs: Uneasy encounters between Mursi and tourists in southern Ethiopia
Unconventional Gas in Australia: Towards a Legal Geography
Recent commentary on future research directions for legal geography highlights the need for studies that are historically grounded and focused on human-environment interactions in rural settings. As a current, controversial land use in Australia, unconventional gas (UG) development provides an ideal lens through which researchers can investigate these themes. Utilising emerging international literature and current Australian examples, this paper …
Warfare among East African Herders
Agreeing to Disagree: The Measurement of Duration in a Southwestern Ethiopian Community [and Comments and Reply]
The Mursi are cultivators and cattle herders who live in the Lower Omo Valley of southwestern Ethiopia and whose methods of measuring duration have so far been unaffected by contact with literate cultures. In this article it is shown how the Mursi solve the problem of relating a cycle of seasonal events to a nonintegral series of lunar months, while remaining unaware that this cycle is related, in fact, to the solar year. This analysis leads to t…
The Majangir: Ecology and Society of a Southwest Ethiopian People
List of illustrations Preface 1. Introduction: the Majang tribe 2. Subsistence: secondary sources 3. Subsistence: shifting agriculture 4. The domestic group: labour and property 5. The domestic group: composition and development 6. The domestic group: eating and sleeping 7. The neighbourhood ('the same coffee') 8. The settlement ('the same fields') 9. The community ('the same beer') 10. Mobility 11. Territory 12. Conclusions Bibliography Index
Landscape change in the lower Omo valley, southwestern Ethiopia: Burning Patterns and Woody Encroachment in the Savanna
In this article we examine bush encroachment in a savanna ecosystem of the lower Omo Valley occupied by Mursi agro-pastoralists. Focusing on the role of fire and grazing, the main anthropogenic disturbance factors in the savanna, we compare the results of our ecological surveys with Mursi perceptions and understandings of environmental change. The main change described by Mursi is the loss of grassland over the last 30 to 40 years. Their explanat…
Mursi Response to Drought: Some Lessons for Relief and Rehabilitation
Journal Article MURSI RESPONSE TO DROUGHT: SOME LESSONS FOR RELIEF AND REHABILITATION Get access DAVID TURTON DAVID TURTON The author is Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology at Manchester University and did fieldwork among the Mursi people of Ethiopia in 1969–70, 1973–4, 1982–3. Fieldwork was supported by the ESRC and the area studies committee of the University of Manchester. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Sch…
Problems of Savannah Development: The Sudan Case
The Nubian Exodus
Long-term resilience, bush encroachment patterns and local knowledge in a Northeast African savanna
Warfare, Vulnerability and Survival: A Case from Southwestern Ethiopia
The Mursi are a small group of herders and cultivators living in the Lower Omo Valley of southwestern Ethiopia. Over the past 20 years they have suffered a disaster of classic proportions, involving drought, famine, migration and war. Measures taken to ensure the physical survival of people, and especially cattle, in the face of regular and expected attacks by their neighbours have made the economy of the Mursi more vulnerable to climatic uncerta…
Every Man His Way: Readings in Cultural Anthropology
The Majangir: Ecology and Society of a Southwest Ethiopian People
List of illustrations Preface 1. Introduction: the Majang tribe 2. Subsistence: secondary sources 3. Subsistence: shifting agriculture 4. The domestic group: labour and property 5. The domestic group: composition and development 6. The domestic group: eating and sleeping 7. The neighbourhood ('the same coffee') 8. The settlement ('the same fields') 9. The community ('the same beer') 10. Mobility 11. Territory 12. Conclusions Bibliography Index
The Konso of Ethiopia: A Study of the Values of a Cushitic People
Greater Ethiopia: The Evolution of a Multiethnic Society
The Nubian Exodus
Response to Drought: The Mursi of Southwestern Ethiopia
Food Taboos, Diet, and Hunting Strategy: The Adaptation to Animals in Amazon Cultural Ecology [and Comments and Reply]
The issue of food prohibitions on such Amazonian game animals as deer is examined from an ecological perspective, in contrast to previous symbolic or structuralist views on this subject. Examined in conjunction with settlement pattern, technology, animal behavior, and habitat productivity, which together determine the food-extraction potential of a population, the avoidance of certain inherently edible species by characterizing them as inebible i…
Agreeing to Disagree: The Measurement of Duration in a Southwestern Ethiopian Community [and Comments and Reply]
The Mursi are cultivators and cattle herders who live in the Lower Omo Valley of southwestern Ethiopia and whose methods of measuring duration have so far been unaffected by contact with literate cultures. In this article it is shown how the Mursi solve the problem of relating a cycle of seasonal events to a nonintegral series of lunar months, while remaining unaware that this cycle is related, in fact, to the solar year. This analysis leads to t…
The Tuareg: People of Ahaggar
Anthropological Studies in Hazardous Environments: Past Trends and New Horizons [and Comments and Reply]
Losses arising from natural disasters continue to mount world-wide, though the most alarming social and economic dislocations are occurring in developing countries. How effectively social institutions protect against and adjust to catastrophic events is an issue which has generated a growing body of research. This paper surveys anthropological contributions to natural-disaster studies and considers their relevance for disaster mitigation policy. …
On the Measurement of Duration in Nonliterate Communities
Warfare among East African Herders
Social Responses During Severe Food Shortages and Famine [and Comments and Reply]
Although emergency food shortages and famines have been a prominent part of human experience for thousands of years and recur somewhere on our planet almost annually, data describing behavioral and organizational responses are few and scattered. Generalizations, when not speculative, tend to be vague and frequently contradictory. Practical, humanistic, and scientific concern with how people respond when overtaken by nutritional catastrophe provid…
There's No Such Beast: Cattle and Colour Naming Among the Mursi
Etude des termes de couleur chez les Mursi du Sud-Ouest de l'Ethiopie, a partir du constat qu'ils ne connaissent pas d'autres termes de couleur que ceux designant les couleurs de betail. Suivant l'approche des travaux de B. et E.A. Berlin et P. Kay, analyse du fonctionnement de ce systeme, qui, a partir du modele fourni par les couleurs de betail, represente des categories de couleurs ou de formes universellement reconnues
The Hamar of Southern Ethiopia. By Jean Lydall and Ivo Strecker. Göttingen: Klaus Renner Verlag, Univ. Göttingen (Arbeiten aus dem Institut fur Völkerkunde de Universität zu Göttingen, Band 12-14) 3 v…
The Hamar of Southern Ethiopia. By Jean Lydall and Ivo Strecker. Göttingen: Klaus Renner Verlag, Univ. Göttingen (Arbeiten aus dem Institut fur Völkerkunde de Universität zu Göttingen, Band 12-14) 3 vols. 1979. I. Work Journal v, 289p.; II. Baldambe explains v, 231p., ill., maps, notes; III. Conversations in Dambaiti v, 273p., maps., notes. - Volume 51 Issue 1
Ethnology: The Warrior Tradition in Modern Africa . Ali A. Mazrui , ed
Stone Age Science in Britain? [and Comments and Reply]
In the last few decades, several writers have drawn attention to indications of the existence of science in nonliterate, Neolithic societies. One proponent of that idea is Alexander Thom, who has carried out extremely exact measurements of Neolithic stone monuments in Britain. Thom maintains that perhaps the main purpose of several megalithic monuments was to serve as astronomical observatories-that the exact sightlines they provide would make it…
Warfare Among East African Herders
Problems of Savannah Development: The Sudan Case
Cultural/Applied: Livestock and Equality in East Africa: The Economic Basis for Social Structure . Harold K. Schneider
Pastoral Production and Society
The Future of Pastoral Peoples
The Shaping of Somali Society: Reconstructing the History of a Pastoral People, 1600-1900
Spontaneous resettlement after drought: An Ethiopian example
Based upon two recent periods of fieldwork among a spontaneously resettled population of cattle herders in southwestern Ethiopia, this paper is an attempt to illustrate, by a particular case, the general proposition that external aid, if it is not to be counter-productive, must meet people's needs as they themselves define them.The people in question, the Mursi, have experienced, since 1970, their worst period of drought and hunger in living memo…
Mursi Response to Drought: Some Lessons for Relief and Rehabilitation
Journal Article MURSI RESPONSE TO DROUGHT: SOME LESSONS FOR RELIEF AND REHABILITATION Get access DAVID TURTON DAVID TURTON The author is Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology at Manchester University and did fieldwork among the Mursi people of Ethiopia in 1969–70, 1973–4, 1982–3. Fieldwork was supported by the ESRC and the area studies committee of the University of Manchester. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Sch…
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