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Hoes and clothes in a Luo household: changing consumption in a colonial economy, 1906-1936
African material culture • Bloomington • Published In 1996 • Pages: 243-261
By: Hay, Margaret Jean.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article explores changes in material culture that took place in western Kenya before the Second World War as a direct result of British colonial rule and the complex forces it set in motion. It shows how rural Luo adopted newly imported iron hoe and a wide variety of western clothing using cash income obtained from wage work and cash crop sale. The article also discusses the role played by European missionaries as agents of culture change.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- General tools
- Normal garb
- Special garments
- External relations
- External trade
- Division of labor by gender
- Household
- Labor supply and employment
- Tillage
- Smiths and their crafts
- Acculturation and culture contact
- 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.
- Historian
- 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
- 1968-1973
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1906-1936
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Luoland, Kenya
- NotesAdditional notes
- Margaret Jean Hay
- Includes bibliographical references ( p. 260-261)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 95040501
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Luo (Kenyan and Tanzanian people)