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Luo entrustment: foreign finance and the soil of the spirits in Kenya
Africa • 65 (2) • Published In 1995 • Pages: 165-196
By: Shipton, Parker MacDonald.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article examines the cultural dimensions of financial credit and debt among the Luo of Kenya. The article places these issues against a deeper and broader background of entrustments and obligations. Based on intensive field research, the article shows that Luo farmers already have a broad assortment of borrowings and lendings of their own, some far more meaningful to them than loans from banks, cooperatives, or marketing boards will ever be. Some of these practices are only partly economic in nature; some involve sacred trusts or important political contacts.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Credit
- Borrowing and lending
- Real property
- External relations
- Research and development
- Cultural identity and pride
- Labor supply and employment
- Property in movables
- Exchange transactions
- Medium of exchange
- Mutual aid
- Cult of the dead
- Mode of marriage
- Sacred objects and places
- Gift giving
- Accumulation of wealth
- Inter-ethnic relations
- Saving and investment
- Administrative agencies
- 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
- article
- 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.
- 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
- 1980-1991
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1950-1995
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Luoland, Kenya
- NotesAdditional notes
- Parker Shipton
- Includes bibliographical references ( p. 192-195)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 29010790
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Luo (Kenyan and Tanzanian people)