Remembering Turkana

Material Histories and Contemporary Livelihoods in North-Western Kenya

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ID9312518
AuthorsSamuel F Derbyshire (0000-0001-5022-6022, corresponding author)
Year2020
Pages280
Publication date2020-07-10
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueRemembering Turkana (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.4324/9781003001263
OpenAlexW4206272575
Open LibraryOL28082204M
ISBN9781003001263
LanguageEN
Citations received7

This book explores aspects of the socio-economic and political history of the Turkana of northern Kenya, examining the making and remaking 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

Geography · African history and culture analysis · African history and culture studies · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · Africa · History · north · Turkana (African people) · Turkana (Peuple d'Afrique)

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