ABSTRACT Turkana fishing communities have operated along the shores of Lake Turkana in northern Kenya, for well over a century and yet are rarely the subject of in-depth historical or ethnographic research. These communities are regularly situated within broader synchronic considerations of economic adversity and destitution, and it is arguably this propensity that has served in large part to overshadow and perhaps even exclude an understanding of locally constituted narratives of change and continuity. In attempting to address this absence, this article draws on fieldwork undertaken in several villages located along the southwest shore of the lake. Using historical photographs and images of ethnographic object collections in interviews and group discussion sessions, this fieldwork was concerned with tracing changes in the production, use, and exchange of everyday material culture through recent history as a means of drawing together personal narratives of socioeconomic, ecological and political change. In exploring the dynamically changing practices involved in the fishing livelihood, a unique understanding emerges of the ways in which fishing communities have negotiated a series of key historical periods, from colonial era taxation to the development and rapid decline of a large-scale commercial fishing industry in the 1970s.

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贸易、发展和贫困：肯尼亚北部图尔卡纳湖西岸捕鱼​​的物质文化史

摘要 一个多世纪以来，图尔卡纳渔业社区一直在肯尼亚北部的图尔卡纳湖沿岸作业，但很少成为深入的历史或人种学研究的主题。这些社区经常处于经济逆境和贫困的更广泛的同步考虑范围内，可以说，这种倾向在很大程度上掩盖了甚至可能排除了对当地构成的变化和连续性叙事的理解。为了解决这种缺失，本文借鉴了在沿湖西南岸的几个村庄进行的实地调查。在访谈和小组讨论中使用历史照片和民族志物品收藏的图像，这项实地工作关注追踪生产、使用、和通过近代历史交流日常物质文化，作为将社会经济、生态和政治变化的个人叙述结合在一起的一种手段。在探索渔业生计所涉及的动态变化的实践中，对渔业社区协商一系列关键历史时期的方式产生了独特的理解，从殖民时代的税收到大规模商业捕鱼业的发展和迅速衰落在 1970 年代。