Comparison of body composition among settled and Nomadic Turkana of Kenya

Ecology of Food and Nutrition

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 193-212

  Corbett, Steve ^a   Gray, S ^b   Campbell, B ^c   Leslie, P W ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^c Boston University   (United States)

^d University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

Activity patterns; Adipose tissue; Agriculture; Anthropometrics; Body composition; Fat free mass; Nomadic; Pastoralism; Subsistence transition; Turkana

Indexed keywords

BODY CONDITION; NOMADIC PEOPLE; PASTORALISM; SETTLEMENT PATTERN;

KENYA;

EID: 0141563258     PISSN: 03670244     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03670240390228978     Document Type: Article

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