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Journal articles on the topic "Turkana Women"

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Gray, Sandra J. "Comparison of effects of breast-feeding practices on birth-spacing in three societies: nomadic Turkana, Gainj, and Quechua." Journal of Biosocial Science 26, no. 1 (1994): 69–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021932000021076.

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SummaryVariation in the duration and pattern of breast-feeding contributes significantly to inter-population differences in fertility. In this paper, measures of suckling frequency and intensity are used to compare the effects of breastfeeding practices on the duration of lactational amenorrhoea, and on the length of the birth interval in three prospective studies undertaken during the 1980s, among Quechua Indians of Peru, Turkana nomads of Kenya, and Gainj of Papua New Guinea.In all three societies, lactation is prolonged well into the second year postpartum, and frequent, on-demand breast-feeding is the norm. However, the duration of lactational amenorrhoea and the length of birth intervals vary considerably. Breast-feeding patterns among Gainj and Turkana are similar, but Turkana women resume menses some 3 months earlier than do the Gainj. The average birth interval among the Gainj exceeds that of nomadic Turkana by over 15 months. Suckling activity decreases significantly with increasing age of nurslings among both Gainj and Quechua, but not among Turkana. Earlier resumption of menses among Turkana women may be linked to the unpredictable demands of the pastoral system, which increase day-to-day variation in the number of periods of on-demand breast-feeding, although not in suckling patterns. This effect is independent of the age of infants.The short birth intervals of Turkana women, relative to those of the Gainj, may be related to early supplementation of Turkana nurslings with butterfat and animals' milk, which reduces energetic demands on lactating women at risk of negative energy balance.
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Little, Michael A., Paul W. Leslie, and Kenneth L. Campbell. "Energy reserves and parity of nomadic and settled Turkana women." American Journal of Human Biology 4, no. 6 (1992): 729–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ajhb.1310040604.

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Gray, Sandra J. "Correlates of dietary intake of lactating women in South Turkana." American Journal of Human Biology 6, no. 3 (1994): 369–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ajhb.1310060312.

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LESLIE, PAUL W., KENNETH L. CAMPBELL, and MICHAEL A. LITTLE. "Reproductive Function in Nomadic and Settled Women of Turkana, Kenyaa." Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 709, no. 1 (1994): 218–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-6632.1994.tb30407.x.

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Pike, Ivy L., and Sharon R. Williams. "Incorporating psychosocial health into biocultural models: Preliminary findings from Turkana women of Kenya." American Journal of Human Biology 18, no. 6 (2006): 729–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ajhb.20548.

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Omolo, Nancy, Paramu Mafongoya, and Oscar Ngesa. "Gender and Resilience to Climate Variability in Pastoralists Livelihoods System: Two Case Studies in Kenya." Journal of Sustainable Development 10, no. 2 (2017): 218. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/jsd.v10n2p218.

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Recurrent droughts due to climate change has led to vulnerability of the pastoralist communities, leading to loss of assets and food insecurity. Climate change will have different impacts on women and men’s livelihoods. Building resilience at individual, household and community level will largely depend on the suitability of interventions to the local context, particularly in relation to the social dynamics and power relations that create differences in vulnerability. Most of the research have focused on national and regional studies. The impact of climate change will not be uniformly distributed in countries within Africa or within the same country. This specific research focuses on two diverse ecological zones at the local level in the same County of Turkana in north western Kenya: agro-pastoral zone and primary pastoral zone. This paper aims to evaluate women and men’s adaptive capacity to climate variability in Turkana, north-western Kenya. It is evident that increasing resilience can be realised by reducing vulnerabilities and increasing adaptive capacity. The results revealed that agro-pastoralists are more resilient to climate change than primary pastoralists. Male headed household are more resilient than female headed households. Access to basic services is contributing more in the resilience score than assets, gender of house hold head and age. Generally, few families in this region have very high resilience score.
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Mirzeler, Mustafa Kemal. "Sorghum as a Gift of Self: the Jie Harvest Ritual Through Time." History in Africa 36 (2009): 387–419. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/hia.2010.0017.

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The purpose of this paper is to present an interpretation of sorghum as the dominant metaphor of self among the Jie people, and the offering of sorghum to the Turkana women by the Jie women as a gift. The literature on food as self is extensive, emerging from various key theorists who have defined the field of food and the semiotics of food (Ohnuki-Tierney 1993; Parry 1985; Raheja 1988). These scholars are keenly aware of the symbolic utility of food as constitutive features of self identity, and they have examined the interplay between self and food and tropes. For Ohnuki-Tierney, for instance, food and food production, and their associations with metaphors, define and produce meaning. Her interpretation of rice grain as one of the foundational categories of the Japanese traditional polity explicates the role commensality of rice plays in defining boundaries between people who share the commensal food and those who do not. As each member of the commensal consume the food, the food becomes a part of his or her body. The food embodied in each individual “…operates as a metonym by being part of the self” (Ohnuki-Tierney 1993:130). In this paper I extend Ohnuki-Tierney's theoretical model in understanding the role sorghum symbolism and metaphors play in producing identities and social relations of power in the Jie society and in the Jie people's interethnic relationship with their Turkana neighbors.
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Pike, Ivy L. "Intersections of Insecurity, Nurturing, and Resilience: A Case Study of Turkana Women of Kenya." American Anthropologist 121, no. 1 (2018): 126–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/aman.13153.

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Mbogori, Teresia, and Mary Murimi. "Effects of a nutrition education intervention on maternal nutrition knowledge, dietary intake and nutritional status among food insecure households in Kenya." International Journal Of Community Medicine And Public Health 6, no. 5 (2019): 1831. http://dx.doi.org/10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20191798.

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Background: Malnutrition remains a major concern in the developing countries especially in food insecure populations. Maternal nutrition knowledge, among other factors, has been shown to improve nutritional status in children under the age of 5 years. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of a nutrition education intervention on maternal nutrition knowledge, dietary intake, and nutritional status in Turkana County, Kenya.Methods: Seventy-three mothers/female caretakers with children <5 years old from Nadapal village in Turkana County were included in the study. At baseline, maternal nutritional knowledge, maternal and child nutritional status, and dietary intake were assessed. During the intervention, participants were trained on breastfeeding, complementary feeding, hygiene and sanitation. The intervention was conducted for five days with two- three hour sessions each day. Six months after the intervention, a follow-up was done to assess the effect of the intervention.Results: At baseline, 53% of the women were underweight (BMI<18.5 kg/m2), 24% of the children were stunted, 20.7% wasted, and 28.6% underweight. After the intervention, maternal knowledge on length of breastfeeding and composition of complementary foods improved. There were no significant changes in nutritional status in both women and children after the intervention.Conclusions: Results from this study implied that nutrition education interventions may improve nutrition knowledge of the mothers /female caretakers. However, without provision of food, the effects of the gained nutrition knowledge may not reflect in the dietary intake or nutritional status and therefore future interventions need to include ways to reduce food insecurity.
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Ongaki, Dominic, Mark Obonyo, Nancy Nyanga, and James Ransom. "Factors Affecting Uptake of PMTCT Services, Lodwar County Referral Hospital, Turkana County, Kenya, 2015 to 2016." Journal of the International Association of Providers of AIDS Care (JIAPAC) 18 (January 1, 2019): 232595821983883. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2325958219838830.

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Kenya is one of 22 countries globally that account for 90% of all HIV-positive pregnant women. This study aimed to determine factors affecting uptake of prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) services among HIV-positive pregnant women at Lodwar County Referral Hospital in Turkana County, an arid area in northern Kenya. We conducted a retrospective review of HIV-positive pregnant women attending antenatal care (ANC) and accessing PMTCT services between January 2015 and December 2016. We used infant prophylaxis as a proxy measure of PMTCT uptake, and records across programs were linked using the mother’s unique medical identification number. A total of 230 participants were included in the study. Bivariate analyses showed maternal prophylaxis (odds ratio [OR] = 45.71; 95% confidence interval [CI]: 10.35-202.00), residing in urban center (OR = 2.64, 95% CI: 1.45-4.81), and having at least one ANC visit (OR = 2.78; 95% CI: 1.25-6.17) were significantly associated with uptake of PMTCT.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Turkana Women"

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Kalaclar, Reyhan. "Meine Welt sprang aus dem Gleis türkische Frauen in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland : Belastungen, Leiden, Chancen /." 1993. http://books.google.com/books?id=SkvaAAAAMAAJ.

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Books on the topic "Turkana Women"

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Schultz, Ulrike. Wir wollen Turkana-Frauen bleiben. LIT Verlag, 1994.

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Schultz, Ulrike. Nomadenfrauen in der Stadt: Die Überlebensökonomie der Turkanafrauen. Dietrich Reimer, 1996.

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Gender and the social and economic impact of drought on the residents of Turkana District in Kenya. Organisation for Social Science Research in Eastern and Southern Africa, 2003.

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Mashāhīr-i zanān-i Turkaman. Makhtūmqulī Farāghī, 2009.

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Zan-i Turkaman: Pizhūhishī dar naqsh-i zanān-i Turkaman, dar sākhtār-i ijtimāʻī-iqtiṣādī-i jāmiʻah-i īlʹnashīn. Makhtūmqulī-i Farāghī, 2003.

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