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Adulthood among the Gusii of Kenya
Themes of work and love in adulthood • Cambridge, Mass. • Published In 1980 • Pages: 77-104
By: LeVine, Robert Alan.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
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 plan' of the Gusii viewed as an organized system of shared ideals about how life should be lived and shared expectancies about how lives are lived, stages and transitions in the lives of men and women, careers, goals, and strategies as expressed in this 'life plan', and work and love in the Gusii context.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Labor and leisure
- Status, role, and prestige
- Age stratification
- Basis of marriage
- Household
- Family relationships
- Polygamy
- Burial practices and funerals
- Puberty and initiation
- Status and treatment of the aged
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Gusii
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2000
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Africa
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Eastern Africa
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 2005
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1974-1976
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- not specified
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- southwestern Kenya
- NotesAdditional notes
- Robert A. LeVine
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 104)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 7926130
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Gusii (African people)