David Turton – Publications

(1971) Mursi Tribe on the Plain of Death. Geographical Magazine XLIII:12, pp. 864-71.

(1975) The Relationship between Oratory and the Exercise of Influence among the Mursi, in M. Bloch (ed.) Political Language and Oratory in Traditional Societies. Academic Press, London. pp. 163-84.

(1975) Mursi, in Family of Man, Vol. 6, Part 71, Marshall Cavendish Ltd.

(1976) Mursi (with M.L. Bender) in  M.L. Bender (ed.) The Non-Semitic Languages of Ethiopia. Monograph 5, Occasional Papers Series, Committee on Ethiopian Studies, African Studies Center, Michigan State University, East Lansing, pp. 533-61.

(1977) Response to Drought: the Mursi of South West Ethiopia, in  J.P. Garlic & R.W.J. Keay (eds.) Human Ecology in the Tropics. Symposia of the Society for the Study of  Human  Biology, Volume XVI, Taylor & Francis, London, pp. 165-92  (Reprinted in Disasters 1:4, pp. 275-88, 1977)

(1978) Territorial Organisation and Age among the Mursi, in  P.T.W. Baxter & U. Almagor (eds.) Age, Generation and Time: Some Features of East African Age  Organisations. Hurst, London, pp. 95-130.

(1978) La categorisation de la couleur en Mursi, in  S. Tornay  (ed.), Voir et nommer les couleurs. CNRS, Paris.

(1979) Warfare among East African Herders (ed. with K. Fukui). Senri Ethnological Studies, No. 3, National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka.

(1979) War, Peace and Mursi identity, in  K. Fukui & D. Turton  (eds.) Warfare among East African Herders, pp. 179-210.

(1979)  Agreeing to Disagree: the Measurement  of Duration in a Southwestern Ethiopian Community (with C.N.R. Ruggles). Current Anthropology, 19:3, 585-600.

(1979) A Journey Made them: Territorial Segmentation and Ethnic  Identity among the Mursi, in L. Holy (ed.) Segmentary Lineage  Systems Reconsidered. Queen's University Papers in Social  Anthropology, Volume 4, Queen's University, Belfast, pp. 119-43.

(1980) The Economics of Mursi Bridewealth: A Comparative  Perspective, in  J. Comaroff (ed.) The Meaning of Marriage Payments. Academic Press, New York and London, pp. 67-92.

(1981) There's no such Beast: Cattle and Colour Naming among the Mursi. Man (NS), 15:2, 320-38.

(1981) Le Mun (Mursi), in  J. Perrot (ed.) Les langues dans le Monde ancien at moderne: Les langues de l'Afrique subsaharienne, pidgins et creoles. CNRS, Paris, pp. 335-349.

(1981) Le groupe Didinga-Murle ou Surma: Groupe isole (with A.N. Tucker), in  J. Perrot (ed)Les langues dans le Monde ancien et moderne: Les langues de l'Afrique subsaharienne, pidgins et creoles. CNRS, Paris, pp. 333-4.

(1981) Exploration in the Lower Omo Valley of Southwestern Ethiopia, in M. Caravaglios (ed.) L'Africa ai tempi di Daniele Comboni. Instituto Italo-Africano, Rome.

(1984)  Spontaneous Resettlement after Drought: An Ethiopian Example (with P. Turton), Disasters 8:3, pp. 178-89.

(1985) Mursi Response to Drought: Some Lessons for Relief and Rehabilitation. African Affairs 84, pp. 331-46.

(1986) A Problem of Domination at the Periphery: The Kwegu and the Mursi, in D. Donham and W. James (eds.) The Southern Marches of Imperial Ethiopia: Essays in History and Social Anthropology. Cambridge University Press, pp. 148-72.

(1987) The Mursi and National Park Development in the Lower Omo Valley, in D. Anderson and R. Groves (eds.) Conservation in Africa: Peoples, Policies and Practice. Cambridge University Press, pp. 169-86.

(1987) Anpassung an eine okologische Krise: Die Mursi in Sudwestathiopien. Trikster. 15: 22-49.

(1988) Looking for a Cool Place: The Mursi, 1890s - 1990s, in D. Anderson and D. Johnson (eds.) The Ecology of Survival: Case Studies from Northeast African History. Lester Crook Academic Publishing/Westview Press, London/Boulder, pp. 261-82.

(1988) Anthropology and Development, in P. Leeson and M. Minogue (eds.) Perspectives on Development. Manchester University Press, Manchester, pp. 126-59.

(1989) Warfare, Vulnerability and Survival: A Case from Southwestern Ethiopia. Cambridge Anthropology. 13:2 (Special issue: Local Warfare in Africa), pp. 67-85. Reprinted in Disasters, 15:3, September 1991, pp.254-64

(1990) Teaching Visual Anthropology at the University of Manchester, in  V. Lattanzi, C. Nobili and L. Paderni (eds.) Antropologia Visuale in Museo, Atti della Rassegna-Conferenza Museo Luigi Pigorini, Roma, 20-24 February, pp. 202-15.

(1991) Movement, Warfare and Ethnicity in the Lower Omo Valley, in  J. Galaty & Pierre Bonte (eds.) Herders, Warriors and Traders: Pastoralism in Africa. Westview Press, Boulder, Colorado, pp. 145-70.

(1992) How to Make a Speech in Mursi, in P.I. Crawford and J. K.  Simonsen (eds.) Ethnographic Film: Aesthetics and Narrative Traditions. Intervention Press, Aarhus, Denmark, pp. 159-75.

(1992) Anthropological knowledge and the culture of broadcasting. Visual Anthropology Review (Spring) pp. 113-7.

(1992) Film as Ethnography (ed. with P. I. Crawford). Manchester University Press, Manchester.

(1992) Anthropology  on television: what next?, in P.I. Crawford and D. Turton (eds.), Film as Ethnography, Manchester University Press, pp. 283-99.

(1992) Comment faire serieux sans faire ennuyeux? Cinemaction, 64, pp. 117-119

(1992) 'We must teach them to be peaceful': Mursi views on being human and on being Mursi. Nomadic Peoples 31, pp. 19-33. Also: Terje Tvedt (ed.) Conflict in the Horn of Africa: Human and Ecological Consequences of Warfare. Research Programme on Environmental Policy and Society (EPOS), Uppsala University, Uppsala, 1993, pp. 164-80.

(1993) Refugees Returning Home. Report of the Symposium for the Horn of Africa on the Social and Economic Aspects of Mass Voluntary Return Movements of Refugees, Addis Ababa, 15-17 September, 1992. United Nations Research Institute for Social Development, Geneva.

(1993) Main Findings of the Conference. Pastoralism in Ethiopia. Proceedings of a conference sponsored by the Ministry of Agriculture of the Ethiopian Government, Oxfam (UK) and Save the Children Federation (US), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia,  4-6 February.

(1994) Mursi Political Identity and Warfare: The Survival of an Idea, in K. Fukui and J. Makarkis (eds), Ethnicity and Conflict in the Horn. James Currey, London, pp. 15-32.

(1994) Pastoralists on Film. The Rural Extension Bulletin, University of Reading (special issue on pastoral development).

(1995) History, age and the anthropologists, in G. Ausenda (ed.) After Empire: Towards an Ethnology of Europe’s Barbarians. Boydell and Brewer, Woodbridge (Suffolk), pp. 95-108.

(1995) Pastoral Livelihoods in Danger: Cattle Disease, Drought and Wildlife Conservation in Mursiland, Southwestern Ethiopia. Oxfam Research Papers No. 12, Oxfam (UK and Ireland).

(1996) Introduction: In Search of Cool Ground (with T. Allen). In T. Allen (ed.) In Search of Cool Ground: War, Flight and Homecoming in Northeast Africa, James Currey, London, pp. 1-22.

(1996) Refugees and Migrants, in T. Allen (ed.) In Search of Cool Ground: War, Flight and Homecoming in Northeast Africa, James Currey, London, pp. 96-110.

(1997) War and Ethnicity: Global Connections and Local Violence in former Yugoslavia and North East Africa. Oxford Development Studies, Vol. 25, No. 1, pp. 77-94.

(1997) War and Ethnicity: Global Connections and Local Violence (ed.). University of Rochester Press, New York. (Paperback edition, 2002)

(1998) Warfare in the Lower Omo Valley, Southwestern Ethiopia: Reconciling Materialist and Political Explanations, in Deadly Developments: Capitalism, States and War, Stephen P. Reyna (ed.), Gordon and Breach, New York, pp. 133-52.

(1999)  Cultural and Ethnic Minorities in Europe (ed. with Julia Gonzalez). Thematic Network on Humanitarian Development Studies of the European Commission/ University of Deusto Press, Bilbao.

(2000) Ethnic Diversity in Europe: Challenges to the Nation-State (ed. with Julia Gonzalez). Thematic Network on Humanitarian Development Studies of the European Commission/ University of Deusto Press, Bilbao

(2002) Forced Displacement and the Nation-State, in J.D. Robinson (ed.) Displacement and Development, Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 19-78.

(2002) The Mursi and the Elephant Question, in D. Chatty and M. Colchester (eds.) Conservation and Mobile Indigenous Peoples: Displacement, Forced Settlement and Sustainable Development, Berghan Books, Oxford and New York, pp.97-118.

(2002) (with Peter Marsden) Taking Refugees for Ride? The Politics of Refugee Return to Afghanistan.  Issues Paper Series, Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit, Kabul and Islamabad.

(2002) The same only different: war and duelling as boundary marking rituals in Mursiland, southwestern Ethiopia, in Tim Cornell (ed.) War and Games, Boydel and Brewer, Woodbridge, Suffolk, pp. 171-92.

(2003) The politician, the priest and the anthropologist: living beyond conflict in southwestern Ethiopia. Bernhard Helander Memorial Lecture, Dept. of Cultural Anthropology, University of Uppsala, June 2002. Ethnos, Vol. 68:1, pp. 5-26.

(2003) Refugees, forced resettlers and ‘other forced migrants’: towards a unitary study of forced migration. New Issues in Refugee Research, Working Paper No. 94, UNHCR, Geneva.

(2003) Immigration in Europe: Issues, Policies and Case Studies (ed. with Julia Gonzalez). Thematic Network on Humanitarian Development Studies of the European Commission/University of Deusto Press, Bilbao.

(2003) Conceptualising Forced Migration. Working Paper No. 12, Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford.

(2003)  Refugees and ‘Other Forced Migrants’. Working Paper No. 13, Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford.

(2004) Lip-plates and ‘the people who take photographs’: uneasy encounters between Mursi and tourists in southern Ethiopia, Anthropology Today. 20 (3): 3-8.

(2004) The meaning of place in a world of movement: lessons from long-term field research in southern Ethiopia. Working Paper No. 18, Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford.

(2004) (with Peter Marsden) Preliminary Study of Assistance to Internally Displaced Persons in Afghanistan. Danish Ministry of International Development (DANIDA) Copenhagen.

(2005) Refugees. In M. Gibney and R. Hansen (eds.) Immigration and Asylum: From 1900 to the Present, Vol. 2. ABC-CLIO, Santa Barbara, California, pp. 501-05.

(2005) The meaning of place in a world of movement: lessons from long term field research in southern Ethiopia. Journal of Refugee Studies, 18:3, pp. 258-80.

(2005) Four questions about Ethiopia’s Ethnic federalism. St Antony’s International Review (University of Oxford). Issue 2, November 2005, pp. 88-101.

(2005) The Haphazard Astronomy of the Mursi (with Clive Ruggles). In Von Del Chamberlain, J. B. Carlson and M.J. Young (eds.) Songs from the Sky: Indigenous Astronomical and Cosmological Traditions of the World, Ocarina Books, Bognar Regis (and Archeoastronomy: The Journal of the Center for Archeoastronomy, Vols. XII-XIII), pp. 298-309.

(2006) Who is a forced migrant? In C. de Wet (ed.) Development-induced displacement: problems, policies and people. Berghahn Books, Oxford and New York, pp. 13-37.

(2006) Ethnic Federalism: The Ethiopian Experience in Comparative Perspective (ed.). James Currey Publishers/Addis Ababa University Press, Oxford/Addis Ababa.