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Cultural narratives, violence, and mother-son loyalty: an exploration into Gusii personification of evil
Ethos • 29 (1) • Published In 2001 • Pages: 3-29
By: Ogembo, Justus Mozart H'Achachi.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
In 1992-94 during a period of communal hysteria about witches in Gusii, southwestern Kenya, three men were involved in the execution of their mothers whom they accused of witchcraft. These men were never punished by the government or ostracized by the community for homicide, in accordance with traditonal custom. This response of the community is unusual, but it can be understood in terms of the dominant ideology of the patrilineage that gained great directive force (on the members) from the economic and political stress the country was going through at the time (p. 3).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Gender status
- Household
- Family relationships
- Offenses against life
- Offenses against the person
- Sorcery
- Life and death
- Mythology
- Ethnopsychology
- 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
- article
- 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
- 1995
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1992-1995
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- southwestern Kenya
- NotesAdditional notes
- Justus M. Ogembo
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 27-29)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 73643517
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Gusii (African people)