Documents

African Parks Foundation (APF)

• Omo Agreement: Agreement between the Government of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia and the Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples' Regional State and African Parks (Ethiopia) PLC, concerning the management of the Omo National Park, November 2005.

• Termination statement: Statement issued by African Parks Network, announcing its intention to give up its management of the Omo and Nech Sar National Parks, 7 December, 2007.

Carlson, Jerry

• How the missionaries came to Makki: An account by Jerry Carlson (2009) of the establishment and early years of the SIM Mission at Makki, northern Mursiland.

Government of Ethiopia

• Humanitarian Requirements: 'Humanitarian requirements document, October-December 2009', by the Ethiopian Government and its humanitarian partners, 22 October 2009.

LaTosky, Shauna

• The lip-plates of Mursi women: 'Reflections on the lip-plates of Mursi women as a source of stigma and self-esteem', by Shauna LaTosky, in Ivo Strecker and Jean Lydall (eds.) The perils of face: essays on cultural contact, respect and self-esteem in southern Ethiopia, Lit verlag, Münster, 2004.

Regi, Tamas

• Mursi duelling: A photo essay by Tamás Régi, 2009.

Survival International

• Letter to African Parks Foundation: Letter from Stephen Corry, Director of Survival International, to Peter Fearnhead, Chief Executive Officer of African Parks Foundation, 31 October 2007.

Turton, David

• The Social Organisation of the Mursi: The social organisation of the Mursi, a pastoral tribe of the lower Omo Valley, southwestern Ethiopia, by David Turton. PhD thesis, London School of Economics, University of London, 1973.

• Mursi: 'Mursi', by David Turton and M.L. Bender in M.L. Bender (ed.), The Non-Semitic Languages of Ethiopia,  African Studies Center, Michigan State University, East Lansing, 1976, pp. 533-61.

• A journey made them: 'A journey made them: territorial segmentation and ethnic identity among the Mursi', by David Turton in Ladislav Holy (ed.), Segmentary lineage systems reconsidered, Department of Social Anthropology, Queen's University Papers in Social Anthropology, Volume 4, Queen's University, Belfast, 1979, pp. 119-43.

• Exploration in the lower Omo Valley: 'Exploration in the lower Omo valley of southwestern Ethiopia between 1890 and 1910', by David Turton. Revised version of a paper first published in Maria Caravaglios (ed.), L'Africa ai Tempi di Daniele Comboni, Atti del Congresso Internazionale di Studi Africani, Istituto Italo-Africano e Missionari Comboniani, Rome, 19-21 November, 1981.

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

• Response to drought: 'Mursi response to drought: some lessons for relief and rehabilitation', by David Turton, African Affairs 84,1985, pp. 331-46.

• Looking for a cool place: 'Looking for a cool place: the Mursi, 1890s-1990s', by David Turton, 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, 1988, pp. 261-82.

• How to make a speech: 'How to make a speech in Mursi', by David Turton, in Peter Ian Crawford and Jan Ketel Simonsen (eds.), Ethnographic film aesthetics and narrative traditions, Proceedings from NAFA 2, 1992, pp. 159-175.

• Pastoral livelihoods in danger: Pastoral Livelihoods in Danger: Cattle Disease, Drought, and Wildlife Conservation in Mursiland, South-Western Ethiopia, by David Turton. Oxfam Research Paper 12, Oxfam (UK and Ireland), 1995.

• The elephant question: 'The Mursi and the Elephant question' by David Turton, in D. Chatty and M. Colchester (eds.), Conservation and Mobile Indigenous Peoples: Displacement, Forced Settlement and Sustainable Development, Berghahn Books, Oxford and New York, 2002, pp.97-118.

• The people who take photographs: ' Lip-plates and the people who take photographs: uneasy encounters between Mursi and tourists in southern Ethiopia' by David Turton, Anthropology Today, 20: 2, April 2004.

• The meaning of place: 'The meaning of place in a world of movement: lessons from long term field research in southern Ethiopia' by David Turton. Annual Elizabeth Colson Lecture, sponsored by the Refugee Studies Centre and given at Rhodes House, University of Oxford, 12 May 2004. Also published in the Journal of Refugee Studies, 18:3, 2005, pp. 258-80.

• The takeover of the Omo National Park: 'The takeover of Ethiopia's Omo National Park by African Parks Foundation (APF) of the Netherlands', by David Turton, 2005.

• African Parks on the Omo: 'African Parks Foundation and the Omo National Park', by David Turton. Prepared for a meeting of African Parks Foundation and the IUCN National Committee for the Netherlands, 17 May, 2006.

• Mursi Dictionary: Mursi-English-Amharic Dictionary, by David Turton, Moges Yigezu and Olisarali Olibui. Culture and Arts Society of Ethiopia (CASE) and Ermias Advertising, Addis Ababa, 2008.

Woodhead, Leslie

• Making 'The Mursi': Reflections by Leslie Woodhead (2006) on his experience making the film 'The Mursi' in 1974.

Yigezu, Moges

• Mursi orthography: 'Latin based Mursi Orthography', by Moges Yigezu and David Turton. ELRC Working Papers, Ethiopian Languages Research Center, Addis Ababa University, Vol. 1, No. 2 December 2005, pp. 242-57.