Abstract
The Turkana, a pulation of around 250,000 nomadic shepherds, live in the north-west of Kenya in an extremely arid and barren area between lake Turkana and Uganda. Having lived many years without any intrusion of the modern world, the Turkana, nomadic shepherds perfectly adapted to their hostile environment, had to, however, diversify their pastoral economy following the serious drought of 1961. Some of them took up fishing. The author, gives us a brief survey of the social and economic structures of this ethnic group. Concentrating on the place of cattle, both from a social and a symbolic point of view, within the Turkana community, he depicts the recent changes that have taken place in their way of life following the wish of the Kenyan government to 'develop' this region.
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