' 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.
'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.
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.
'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.
'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.
'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.
'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.
'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.
'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.
'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.
Letter from Stephen Corry, Director of Survival International, to Peter Fearnhead, Chief Executive Officer of African Parks Foundation, 31 October 2007.
'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.
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.
'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.
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.
'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.
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.
This map was made over a two year period by asking Mursi what features of their territory it was important to map. Being pastoralists, their first concern was with resources used by cattle, particularly saltlicks and hot springs from which cattle as well as wildlife obtain essential mineral nutrients. They also wanted to map their villages and cultivation sites.
A Mursi was given GPS training to enable him to assist with the map making. When a base map of Mursi land use had been completed, this was filled in with other important features. The symbols on the map were drawn by a Mursi so that other Mursi would have an easier time identifying the map features. Many Mursi who cannot read or write can read this map. They are helped in identifying such features as grasslands and rivers by the high quality of the satellite images. A version of the map has also been made in the Mursi language using the syllabic script of Amharic, the national language of Ethiopia. The Mursi have been impressed by the way the map gives them the ability to talk about their land. They often spread it out on a cowskin to discuss its various features and never seem to tire of looking at it.
The map has been endorsed by many community leaders, some of whom are using it to plan the Mursi Community Conservation Area. This is a combined conservation and tourism management project, designed to provide revenue for the Mursi community in response to the loss of grazing and water resources over the past half century, due partly to climate change and partly to the encroachment of national parks on their territory.
Letter from Survival International to Sir Malcom Bruce, Chair of the International Development Committee of the UK House of Commons (2014)- See more at: http://www.mursi.org/news-items/us-appropriations-act-prohibits-support-for-development-activities-in-the-lower-omo-which-2018directly-or-indirectly-involve-forced-evictions2019#sthash.uT4Bt6qy.dpuf
War experiences and self-determination of the Daasanach in the conflict-ridden area of Northeastern Africa, by Toru Sagawa. Nilo-Ethiopian Studies, 14, pp. 19-37, 2010.
Wives' domestic and political activities at home: the space of coffee dringing among the Daasanetch of Southwestern Ethiopia, by Toru Sagawa. African Studies Monographs, 27, 2006, pp. 63-86.
What Future for Lake Turkana? The Impact of Hydropower and Irrigation Development on the World's Largest Desert Lake, by Sean Avery. African Studies Centre, 2013.
Ivo Strecker, Political discourse in an egalitarian society, in Ethnographic Chiasmus: Essays on Culture, Conflict and Rhetoric. Lit Verlag, pp. 123-133 (2010)
Ivo Strecker, Lomotor’s talk, or the imperial gerund, in Ethnographic Chiasmus: Essays on Culture, Conflict and Rhetoric. Lit Verlag, pp. pp.157-168 (2010)
Ivo Strecker, Temptations of war and the struggle for peace, in Ethnographic Chiasmus: Essays on Culture, Conflict and Rhetoric. Lit Verlag, pp. pp.181-227 (2010)
La industria lítica mursi en el valle del Mago (Etiopía), by Juan Salazar, Jerome Robitaille & Augustin Diez . Archivo de Prehistoria Levantina
Vol. XXIX, Valencia, p. 379-396. 2012.
Cultura material y ethnografia en el valle del Omo (Etiopia) entravista con David Turton, by Juan Salazar. In: Revista Valenciana d’Etnologia, p. 28-44. 2011.
'Do our bodies know their ways? Villagization, food insecurity and ill-being in Ethiopia's Lower Omo Valley' by E.G.J. Stevenson and L. Buffavand. In, African Studies Review. 2018, pp. 109-133.