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...Mustafa Kemal Mirzeler This article examines the implicit meaning of the well-known Jie and Turkana oral tradition of origin known as Nayeche, as a remembered memory and a repeated event. The images of the remembered messages of the past event contained in the Nayeche oral tradition are reproduced...

..., Austin cut across Turkan to Lake Rudolf. Meanwhile Macdonald, moving across Karamoja, reached Manimani on August 6, where he met a body of Karamojong, whom he described as ‘‘the best fighters in Equatoria Continuing north, but avoiding the Jie (de- scribed as ‘‘treacherous’’ by the Karamojong...

...—the Jie, Karamojong, Didinga, Toposa, Nyangatom, and Dassanetch. Today the Jie and the Karamojong live west of the Turkana. In a great arc from west to east are the Didinga and the Toposa from Sudan, the Nyangatom, who oscillate across the border between Sudan and Ethio- pia, and the Dassanetch...

... Pastoral Tribes in East Africa, the Jie and Turkana . 2nd ed. London: Routledge and Keagan Paul. Lamphear, J. 1992 The Scattering Time: Turkana Responses to Colonial Rule . Oxford: Clarendon. Little, M. A., and P. W. Leslie, eds. 1999 Turkana Herders of the Dry Savanna: Ecology and Behavioral...