ISBN:
0-19-820226-1
,
978-0-19-820226-4
Language:
English
Pages:
xxiii, 308 Seiten
,
Karten
Series Statement:
Oxford Studies in African Affairs
Keywords:
Turkana Kenia
;
Großbritannien
;
Kolonie, britisch
;
Kolonialismus
;
Kolonialgeschichte
;
Regierung
;
Soziale Bedingungen
;
Beziehungen, interethnische
;
Rassismus
;
Quelle, ethnographische
;
Orale Tradition
Abstract:
This is a study of the responses, especially the armed resistance, of the Turkana people of north-western Kenya to British colonial administration in the early twentieth century. From their first encounters with the colonial vanguard in the 1890s to the final surrender of the great Diviner, Loolel Kokoi, in 1926 many Turkana resisted imperial conquest. Even after the imposition of colonial rule, they continued to oppose the administration though a variety of strategies.This is the first full study of the pastoral Turkana people. In exploring their responses to European colonialism John Lamphear makes extenstive use or oral sources, as well as archival and published material. His analysis is also intended as an exercise in military history, and it addresses the fundamental question of why some African societies met the European advance with armed resistance while others did not. The Scattering Time make an important contribution to the historiography of the imperial conquest of Africa and especially Kenya. (Umschlagtext)
Description / Table of Contents:
List of Maps -- List of Abbreviations -- Notes on Citations of Oral Interviews -- Notes on Orthography and Pronunciation -- Glossary -- Introduction -- 1. The Turkana and Eturkan -- 2. The People of Blood and the People of Water: The Rise of Turkana Diviners in the Later Nineteenth Century -- 3. The Vulture from the Sky -- 4. 'Let No Man Grasp My Arm': The Establishment of British Administration in the South 1903-1913 -- 5. 'Those with Angry Bowels': Developments in Northern Eturkan 1903-1913 -- 6. Ekaru Apumpum: 'The Time of Gunfire' -- 7. 'The War of Apara and the War of Kokoi': The Escalation of Turkana Resistance to the end of 1917 -- 8. Apetaret: 'The Scattering' -- 9. The Time of Engolekume: The Administration of Turkana District 1919- 1923 -- 10. Ekaru Ekwakoit: 'The Time of the White Bone' -- Conclusion: A Military Analysis -- Appendix: List of Informants who Participated in the Oral Interviews -- Bibliography -- Index
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite [287]-300
Permalink
