Turkana



ETHNONYM: Ngiturkan


Bibliography

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Galvin, K. (1985). "Diet and Nutrition of Turkana Pastoralists in a Social and Ecological Context. Ph.D. dissertation, State University of New York at Binghamton.


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Gulliver, Philip (1955). The Family Herds: A Study of Two Pastoral Tribes. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.


Lamphere, John (1992). The Scattering Time: Turkana Responses to Colonial Rule. Oxford: Clarendon Press.


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