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Luo personal names: reference and meaning
Topics in African linguistics • 100 • Published In 1993 • Pages: 131-140
By: Blount, Ben G..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article discusses the semantic content of Luo personal names. It tries to achieve this goal by analyzing the meanings associated with some 200 personal names collected from in south western Kenya in 1967-1968 and again in 1970.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Personal names
- Naming
- Personality traits
- Lineages
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Revelation and divination
- Cult of the dead
- 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.
- Linguist
- 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
- Teferi Abate Adem; 2009
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1967-1968
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1967-1970
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Luoland, Kenya
- NotesAdditional notes
- Ben G. Blount
- Includes bibliographical references ( p. 139-140)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 93005761
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Luo (Kenyan and Tanzanian people)