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Detachability of women: gender and kinship in processes of socioeconomic change among the Gusii of Kenya
American ethnologist • 21 (3) • Published In 1994 • Pages: 516-538
By: Håkansson, Thomas.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article examines the role of gender and kinship identities in shaping women's access to social and economic resources among the Gusii and Luyia in Kenya. High population densities, cash crop production, market dependency, and wage labor are ubiquitous in the fertile Kenya highlands. However, changes in gender relationships and family forms vary and are not attributable to political-economic factors alone. The results of these transformation also depend on the content of women's relationships with their natal kin, and on the role of marriage in defining the character of women's social identities (p. 516).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Theoretical orientation in research and its results
- Comparative evidence
- Sociocultural trends
- Real property
- Gender status
- Mode of marriage
- Termination of marriage
- Celibacy
- Household
- Family relationships
- Polygamy
- 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
- 1982-1983, 1985
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1950-1985
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Kisi District, western Kenya
- NotesAdditional notes
- N. Thomas Håkansson
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 535-538)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 74644326
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Gusii (African people)