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Homicide and suicide among the Joluo of Kenya
African homicide and and suicide • Princeton • Published In 1960 • Pages: 179-213, 273-274, 287-288
By: Wilson, Gordon M..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
The aim of this source and the others in the collection 'is to provide description and analysis of the culture patterns which involve homicide and suicide in several African societies.' The author provides brief background data on the identification of the Luo, their location, social organization, and recent changes brought about by European contacts. He then discusses several aspects of the society particularly related to the subject, such as attitudes toward death in general, violence, the effect on kinship and community groups of homicide and suicide, and the reaction usual to such events. The body of the source is devoted to specific cases of homicide and suicide selected from numerous examples to indicate the variety of motives, methods and results encountered.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Offenses against life
- Sex and marital offenses
- Liability
- Inter-community relations
- Status, role, and prestige
- Behavior toward non-relatives
- Crime
- Polygamy
- Gender status
- Education system
- Clans
- Territorial hierarchy
- Missions
- Eschatology
- Crime
- Miscellaneous sex behavior
- Life history materials
- 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
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Social Anthropologist
- 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
- George R. Bedell ; 1960
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- ca. 1950
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1949-1960
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Luoland, Kenya
- NotesAdditional notes
- G. M. Wilson
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 59013873
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Luo (Kenyan and Tanzanian people)