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1 online resource (x, 184 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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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. |
| 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 |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (Archaeopress Web site, viewed on November 6, 2019). |
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Print version record. |
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Open Access EbpS |
| Subject |
Omo River (Ethiopia and Kenya) -- History.
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Turkana, Lake (Kenya and Ethiopia) -- History.
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Omo River (Ethiopia and Kenya) -- Social life and customs -- Pictorial works.
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Turkana, Lake (Kenya and Ethiopia) -- Social life and customs -- Pictorial works.
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Omo (Éthiopie et Kenya : Fleuve) -- Histoire.
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Turkana, Lac (Kenya et Éthiopie) -- Histoire.
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Omo (Éthiopie et Kenya : Fleuve) -- Mœurs et coutumes -- Ouvrages illustrés.
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Turkana, Lac (Kenya et Éthiopie) -- Mœurs et coutumes -- Ouvrages illustrés.
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African history.
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Environmental archaeology.
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Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography.
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Social Science -- Archaeology.
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Manners and customs
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Africa -- Lake Turkana
https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJtrQTRYBxCT3rpTVVbDbd
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Africa -- Omo River
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology
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History
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Pictorial works
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| Added Author |
Clack, Timothy, editor.
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Brittain, Marcus, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: River. Oxford [UK] : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd, [2018] |
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Print version: River. Oxford [UK] : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd, [2018] 178969034X 9781789690347 (OCoLC)1126542728 |
| ISBN |
9781789690347 (electronic bk.) |
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178969034X (electronic bk.) |
| Standard No. |
UKMGB 019285232 |
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AU@ 000068025785 |
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