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Witchcraft and sorcery in a Gusii communityessay 1963 • LeVine, Robert Alan
Gusii • Africa > Eastern Africa
Witchcraft and sorcery is a preoccupation of the Gusii people living in and around Nyansongo, in Southwestern Kenya. This document describes in detail beliefs about witches, including information on how one becomes a witch, methods used in witchcraft...Adulthood among the Gusii of Kenyaessay 1980 • LeVine, Robert Alan
Gusii • Africa > Eastern Africa
The major theme of this article is adulthood as it exists among the Gusii of Kenya. In his analysis of this concept LeVine discusses the domestic group or homestead as a multifunctional unit and a model for social experience in the society, the 'life...The Gusii familyessay 1964 • LeVine, Robert Alan
Gusii • Africa > Eastern Africa
This study presents a summary of the ideals and norms which operate in the developmental processes of Gusii domestic groups -- the homestead, the nuclear or polygynous family, and the extended family. The document describes in detail the structure an...Gusii funeralsarticle 1982 • LeVine, Robert Alan
Gusii • Africa > Eastern Africa
According to LeVine the funerals of the Gusii, like those of other African peoples, are occasions for dramatic public statements about the meanings of particular lives and of life in general. This article attempts to explicate those meanings on the b...Gusii sex offensesarticle 1959 • LeVine, Robert Alan
Gusii • Africa > Eastern Africa
Among the Gusii of southwestern Kenya, the high frequency of rape is a major social problem and has been a source of concern to Gusii chiefs and administrators for many years. In this study LeVine inquires into the causes of that situation and attemp...NyansongoBook 1966 • LeVine, Robert Alan & Lloyd, Barbara B. (Barbara Bloom)
Gusii • Africa > Eastern Africa
This work presents a general ethnography of the Gusii community of Nyansongo in Kenya, East Africa, covering roughly the period of 1930-1957. Emphasis in the study is on the various degrees to which childhood experiences in the first years of life de...Referencesbook chapter 1994 • LeVine, Robert Alan et al.
Gusii • Africa > Eastern Africa
This document consists in its entirety of bibliographical citations....Gusii culturebook chapter 1994 • LeVine, Robert Alan et al.
Gusii • Africa > Eastern Africa
The first part of this study presents a survey of Gusii ethnography, with emphasis on the period of 1907-1974, then turns to an analysis of the homestead (OMOCHIE) as a domestic model of social order and personal success in the society. Additional in...Gusii fertility, marriage, and familybook chapter 1994 • LeVine, Robert Alan et al.
Gusii • Africa > Eastern Africa
This article examines in detail the Gusii fertility predicament in Kenya, and attempts to explain how their fertility rate reached and remained at such a high level. In addition, the author discusses why parents want to bear so many children, and wha...Pregnancy and birthbook chapter 1994 • LeVine, Robert Alan et al.
Gusii • Africa > Eastern Africa
This is a detailed study of normal pregnancy and birth customs among the Gusii of Southwestern Kenya, with additional data on practices associated with difficult and unusual births (e.g., the birth of twins), on the postpartum care of mother and chil...Infant carebook chapter 1994 • LeVine, Robert Alan et al.
Gusii • Africa > Eastern Africa
This article is concerned with the manner in which Gusii mothers define infant care -- their shared assumptions about the tasks and standards involved -- and examines the infant's interpersonal environment over the first 30 months of life. Age trends...Survival and healthbook chapter 1994 • LeVine, Robert Alan et al.
Gusii • Africa > Eastern Africa
In this study LeVine examines the health and physical growth of Gusii children from birth to approximately four years of age, as outcomes of the caregiving environments in Morongo during the 1970s (p. 194). Customs of infant care reflect an adaptive ...Communication and social learning during infancybook chapter 1994 • LeVine, Robert Alan et al.
Gusii • Africa > Eastern Africa
Experience and learning begins for Gusii infants, as for all humans, at birth and is culturally organized. Infant psychosocial and behavioral development, though not prominent in Gusii formulation of parental priorities, is culturally shaped even in ...Variations in infant interactionbook chapter 1994 • LeVine, Robert Alan et al.
Gusii • Africa > Eastern Africa
Gusii parent share a cultural model of child care, but their central tendencies in implementing it do not adequately convey the diversity of environmental conditions in which Gusii infants are raised. To illustrate this diversity the author(s) chose ...Mothers and wivesBook 1979 • LeVine, Sarah & LeVine, Robert Alan
Gusii • Africa > Eastern Africa
This document consists of a series of seven case studies of Gusii women dealing with their concepts of motherhood and childbearing. These concepts, which are not necessarily typical of their people as a whole, represent a broad range of variation amo...Gender and life-course strategies among the Gusiiessay 1997 • Håkansson, Thomas & LeVine, Robert Alan
Gusii • Africa > Eastern Africa
In Gusii society not only is the road toward an ideal old age different for men and women, but the ways in which each gender achieves the ideal are mutually contradictory. As in many other African societies, the family provides security and comfort i...Population growth in a Kenya communityarticle 1972 • Nerlove, Sarah B. & LeVine, Robert Alan
Gusii • Africa > Eastern Africa
Population figures based on surveys conducted in 1957 and 1967 are presented for the Gusii community of 'Nyansongo' in southwestern Kenya. The figures suggest a considerable increase in population, possibly even greater than that for Kenya as a whole...