... and exploit the imperial regime's official ethnic geography. This ethnic creativity in a specific community in western Kenya shows that colonial efforts to determine the physical and imagined tribal boundaries merely set the scene for African identity creation in the twentieth century. In practice, Kenyan...

... fossils were first discovered in the lower Omo Valley at the beginning of the twentieth century, but the first multidisciplinary international expedition to investigate the region was that of the International Omo Research Expedition in 1967. The National Museums of Kenya participated in the first IORE...

...Paul Tablino This article draws on material from my study of the evangelization of some nomadic communities in northern Kenya (Tablino 2004). It traces how the initial Consolata Missions (to which I now belong) were established in the region in 1963 shortly before the independence of Kenya...

...Michael N. I. Lokuruka; Pauline A. Lokuruka The original wave of Turkana immigrants from southwestern Sudan coalesced over time—through intermarriage with earlier inhabitants of Turkan (Turkana country) and with other nomadic pastoralists in Kenya, Ethiopia, Uganda, and Sudan—to grow into Ngturkana...

.... Robbins, and B. M. Lynch 1980 Late Stone-Age Fishermen of Lothagam, Kenya . East Lansing: Michigan State University Museum Anthropological Series 3(2). Arambourg, C. 1947 Contribution à l'étude géologique et paléontologique du basin du lac Rodolphe et de la basse vallée de l'Omo . Mission...

..., Kenya Colony. Zeitschrift für Vulkanologie 17 : 163 -72. Collins, Robert O. 1961 The Turkana Patrol, 1918. Uganda Journal 25 : 16 -33. Dyson-Hudson, Rada, and Neville Dyson-Hudson 1980 Nomadic Pastoralism. Annual Review of Anthropology 9 : 15 -61. Fuchs, V. E. 1934...

... Foundations of Anthropology Itself? In Perspectives in Marxist Anthropology . Pp. 70 -229. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Goto, Paul S. G. 1972 The Boran of Northern Kenya: Origin, Migrations, and Settlements in the Nineteenth Century. BA thesis , Department of History, University of Nairobi...

... . Submitted to the Royal Society, the Royal Geographical Society, and the British Association. Fuchs, Vivian 1935 The Lake Rudolf Rift Valley Expedition, 1934. Geographical Journal 86 : 114 -42. Heine, Bernd 1982 Traditional Fishing in the Rift Valley of Kenya: A Linguistic Survey. Sprache und...

... of the Shomvi, Swahili-speaking residents of Indian Ocean coastal settlements, who were being attacked by the Kamba people of Kenya. Subsequently, the Shomvi agreed to offer the Pazi an annual tribute as ongoing payment for his assistance. Analyzing the Kamba War account as both foundation narrative...

... involved three separate colonial administrations (Uganda, Sudan, and British East Africa, now Kenya)—became involved in an internal debate. One viewpoint was that, other than denying this harsh and arid region to imperial rivals, it should be left alone. The other side favored “hands on” administration...

... Sozialsystem der Rendille: Kamelnomaden Nordkenias . Berlin: Dietrich Reimer. Schlee, Günther 1987 Rendille Ornaments as Identity Markers. Kenya Past and Present 20 : 31 –37. Schlee, Günther 1989 Identities on the Move: Clanship and Pastoralism in Northern Kenya . Manchester: University Press...

..., François 1989 Social Stratification on the Swahili Coast: From Race to Class? Africa 59 ( 2 ): 145 -60. Cooper, Frederick 1980 From Slaves to Squatters: Plantation Labor and Agriculture in Zanzibar and Coastal Kenya, 1890-1925 . New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. de Vere Allen, J. 1981...

... includes northwest Kenya and extends northward into the administrative territory in southeastern Sudan known as the Ilemi Triangle and eastward to the Ethiopian border and the northern shores of Lake Turkana. According to legend, sometime in the past those who became known as the Turkana made...

..., NY: Cornell University Press. Brown, Monty 1993 Where Giants Trod: The Saga of Kenya's Desert Lake . London: MJB. Butzer, Karl W. 1971 Recent History of an Ethiopian Delta: The Omo River and the Level of Lake Rudolf . Chicago: University of Chicago Department of Geography. Cavendish, H...

... of the pattern of change at Lake Turkana, as in Kenya and the world at large, is that people with specialized skills and knowledge can work practically anywhere and move rapidly from conti- nent to continent. Cultures have always mingled their identities, but this process is accelerating now. Several...

... of North East Uganda . Nairobi, Kenya: East Africa Publishing House. Bell, W. D. M. 1923 [1958] The Wanderings of an Elephant Hunter . London: Neville Spearman and the Holland Press. Best, Gunter 1978 Vom Rindernomadismus Zum Fischfang Der Sozio-Kulturelle Wandel Bei Den Turkana Am Rudolfsee...

..., Thomas and Rietz assigned readings to relate that transformative phenomenon to Native America, and Thomas offered lectures “on nationalism in modern society; case studies of Kenya and Maori development . . . and on American Indian colonial status.” 16 During the 1962 and 1963 Workshops, Rietz...

... research methods. For example, in my research on Ubuntu as an Indigenous human rights philosophy, I have relied on oral traditions among ethnic communities in South Africa, Kenya, and Tanzania. I have conducted oral interviews with chiefs, elders, and traditional knowledge keepers who, as custodians...

... of Toronto, recently invoked the image as he bemoaned the necessity of a visit to Mombasa in Kenya. ‘‘I just see myself in a pot of boiling water Last- 8 man explained, ‘‘with all...

... license on less powerful individuals, which allowed them to insult, threaten, and embarrass public officials without consequence. Drunkenness also protected groups that were subject to colo- nial power. Under British colonial rule in Kenya, for example, young Ki- kuyu men used the guise of drunkenness...