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Author Spencer, Paul

Title Samburu : a Study in Geocentracy
Published London : Routledge, 2003

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Description 1 online resource (276 pages)
Contents Book Cover; Title; Contents; PREFACE TO NEW EDITION; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; THE PASTORAL ECONOMY; CLANSHIP AND EXOGAMY; THE FAMILY AND THE HERD; THE STRUCTURE OF SAMBURU SOCIETY; THE MORAN; THE MORAN AND THE TOTAL SOCIETY; ELDERHOOD AND THE CURSE; THE STATUS OF WOMEN; SOCIAL ATTITUDES AND CEREMONY; THE SAMBURU AND SOME NEIGHBOURING TRIBES: A COMPARISON; CONCLUSION: THE GERONTOCRATIC SOCIETY; Census Techniques and Data; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX
Summary Based on two years' study in northern Kenya, this book explores a culture in which power rests with older men
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Subject Samburu (African people) -- Social conditions
Samburu (African people) -- Kinship
Samburu (African people) -- Marriage customs and rites
Older people -- Kenya -- Samburu District -- Social conditions
Gerontocracy -- Kenya -- Samburu District
Gerontocracy
Manners and customs
Older people -- Social conditions
Samburu (African people) -- Social conditions
SUBJECT Samburu District (Kenya) -- Social life and customs
Subject Kenya -- Samburu District
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780203584811
0203584813