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Okeik resource tenure and territoriality as mechanisms for social control and allocation of resources
SUGIA, Sprache und geschichte in Afrika • 7 (1) • Published In 1986 • Pages: 61-82
By: Blackburn, Roderic H..
Abstract
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 sub-territorial units is "owned" by individuals of the same lineage, involving not only ownership of the land itself but rights to certain resources on the land: specifically honey and trees in which beehives can be placed. How this tenure system operates in is described in detail.
- HRAF PubDate
- 2014
- Region
- Africa
- Sub Region
- Eastern Africa
- Document Type
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- John Beierle; 2012
- Field Date
- 1968-1970
- Coverage Date
- 1968-1970
- Coverage Place
- Narok district, Rift Valley province, Kenya
- Notes
- by Roderic H. Blackburn
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 80-81)
- LCCN
- 80642835
- LCSH
- Okiek (African people)
- Dorobo (African people)