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Luo tribes and clans
Rhodes-Livingstone journal • (7) • Published In 1949 • Pages: 24-40
By: Evans-Pritchard, E. E. (Edward Evan).
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article deals with the tribal and kinship structure of the Luo people, and the importance of kin relationships in political, social and economic matters. The author observes that the Luo lineage system has many features in common with the Nuer and other Nilotic groups.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Kin relationships
- Tribe and nation
- Territorial hierarchy
- Regulation of marriage
- Offenses against life
- Settlement patterns
- Cultural participation
- Community structure
- Status, role, and prestige
- Lineages
- Sacred objects and places
- Traditional history
- Real property
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Luo
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2010
- 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
- Robert Lee ; 1959
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1936
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1936-1949
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Luoland, Kenya
- NotesAdditional notes
- by E. E. Evans-Pritchard
- All references to the clan in this and other sources on the Luo have been marked for 614 (Sib).
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 53033358
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Luo (Kenyan and Tanzanian people)