Book
Luo customary law and marriage laws customs
Govt. Printer] • [nairobi • Published In 1961 • Pages:
By: Wilson, Gordon M..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This book described Luo Customary Law pertaining to land tenure, marriage rules and property inheritance. Drawing on information from several court cases and interviews conducted in1954-1955, the book showed that the nature of these customary laws was closely related to the organization of Luo society into clans, lineages and sublineages.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Trial procedure
- Real property
- Inheritance
- Property in movables
- Mode of marriage
- Termination of marriage
- Secondary marriages
- Family relationships
- Gender status
- Kin relationships
- Lineages
- Missions
- Burial practices and funerals
- Cult of the dead
- Prayers and sacrifices
- Purification and atonement
- Sex and marital offenses
- Kinship regulation of sex
- Extramarital sex relations
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Sociocultural trends
- 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
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- 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.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Teferi Abate Adem; 2009
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1954-1955
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1949-1954
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Kenya
- NotesAdditional notes
- Gordon M. Wilson
- Cover title
- At head of title: Colony and Protectorate of Kenya
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 63023785
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Law, Luo (Kenya and Tanzania) Marriage (Luo Kenya and Tanzanial law)