The river : peoples and histories of the Omo-Turkana area / edited by Timothy Clack and Marcus Brittain.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Clack, Timothy, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Omo River (Ethiopia and Kenya)--History.

Omo River (Ethiopia and Kenya).

Turkana, Lake (Kenya and Ethiopia)--History.

Turkana, Lake (Kenya and Ethiopia).

Omo River (Ethiopia and Kenya)--Social life and customs--Pictorial works.

Turkana, Lake (Kenya and Ethiopia)--Social life and customs--Pictorial works.

Genre:

Essays.

Illustrated works.

Physical Description:

x, 184 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford [UK] : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd, [2018]

Summary:

"The Omo-Turkana area is unlike any place on earth. Spanning parts of Ethiopia, South Sudan and Kenya, the area is today home to a unique diversity of peoples and cultures. Extraordinary fossil finds from the locale have illuminated the evolutionary origins of our species and archaeological and historical evidence has demonstrated it has been a dynamic crossroads of peoples, languages and identities for millennia. Over the past two decades, development interventions have transformed the environment and presented a threat to local forms of material and intangible heritage. Many local groups now face challenges to the long-term sustainability of their traditional ways of life. This sumptuously illustrated book brings together a remarkable collection of the world's leading archaeologists, ecologists, historians and ethnographers who specialise in the locale. Recognising the Omo-Turkana area as a crucial resource of global heritage, the authors also acknowledge its current vulnerability."--Page 4 of cover.

Contents:

Foreword / Anthony, Lord St. John of Bletso

Introduction

Part 1: Prehistoric life and environment. 1. Hominins and first humans in the Lower Omo Valley / Alex Wilshaw and Marta Mirazon Lahr

2. Early prehistory of fauna and environment in Mursiland / Michelle Drapeau

3. The Middle Stone Age of the Omo Delta-Turkana Basin / Huw Groucutt

4. The later prehistory of the Turkana Basin / Alex Wilshaw and Marta Mirazon Lahr

Part 2: Pastoral pasts

entering history. 5. Environment histories

the last 2,000 years / Graciela Gil-Romera and Miguel Sevilla-Callejo

6. Archaeology of pastoralism and monumentality in the Omo Valley / by Marcus Brittain and Timothy Clack

7. Global artefacts: the pastoral past in museums / Juan Salazar Bonet and Timothy Clack

Part 3: Pastoral presents

The Mursi. 8. Who are the Mursi? / David Turton and Lugulointheno Jordomo

9. Colour, metaphor and persons / Jean-Baptiste Eczet

10. Clay, cosmology and healing / Kate Fayers-Kerr

11. Nomadic traditions of cattle beautification: the Mursi example / Timothy Insoll and Timothy Clack

12. Material culture / Juan Salazar Bonet

13. Lip plates / Shauna LaTosky

14. Identity ceremony: the duel / Tamas Regi

15. Local economics: cattle and crops / Demerew Danye and Anastasia Novichkhina

Part 4: Exceptional diversity

Omo cultures. 16. Omo autonomies: on populations, tribes, and ethnicity / Felix Girke

17. Linguistic diversity / Shiferaw Assefa and Marcus Brittain

18. Sacrifice and stone platforms in Bodi / Lucie Buffavand and Timothy Clack

19. The Hamar: living by, for and with the cattle / Jerome Dubosson

20. The Suri / Jon Abbink

21. Kwegu: hunters of the river / Lucie Buffavand

Part 5: Finding the Omo

threats and impacts. 22. Written past: explorers' histories / Marco Bassi

23. Last chance to see? Intangible heritage and responsible tourism / Tamas Regi and Timothy Clack

24. `Our poverty will be gone': hope for a Mursi community conservation area / Will Hurd

25. From marginalization to megadam crisis: the Dasanech and their northern Turkana neighbours / Claudia Carr

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

9781789690330

1789690331

9781789690347

178969034X

OCLC:

1061309678

Publisher Number:

99979387617