In the land of milk and honey
essay 1982 Blackburn, Roderic H.

OkiekAfrica > Eastern Africa
In this paper the author describes the use of their forest and it resources and relationships to neighboring groups–relationships of mutual interdependence. The complexity of these relationships are discussed in terms of certain needs which the group...

Okeik resource tenure and territoriality as mechanisms for social control and allocation of resources
article 1986 Blackburn, Roderic H.

OkiekAfrica > Eastern Africa
This document presents an analysis of the resource tenure system which functions as a means for social control by limiting access to a very important forest resource–honey–as it relates to individual rights within a sub-territorial area. Each of the ...

Fission, fusion, and foragers in East Africa
essay 1996 Blackburn, Roderic H.

OkiekAfrica > Eastern Africa
This article addresses in-group diversity, demonstrating in the process of how interpersonal conflicts develop–typically unrelated to subsistence and resulting in residence changes–and how these result in additional social and cultural changes. The a...

The Okiek and their history
essay 1974 Blackburn, Roderic H.

OkiekAfrica > Eastern Africa
This is a brief synopsis, with emphasis on cultural identity, social organization (local groups, lineages, age sets), as well as on technological artifacts, ecology, physical types, theories of origin (both traditional and historically reconstructed)...