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The Masai penal code
Journal of the African Society • 28 • Published In 1928 • Pages: 12-18
By: Maguire, R. A. J..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This short article lists and annotates some of the Kisongo Maasai traditional penalties for dealing with murder, theft, adultery, abortion and curses. It also gives four examples of oaths or ordeals that are administered by the Maasai to establish guilt. The data were gathered and recorded by a colonial officer from information provided by some Maasai elders.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Offenses and sanctions
- Trial procedure
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Maasai
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1996
- 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.
- Government Official
- 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
- Amal Vinogradov ; 1965
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1874-1928
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Kisongo; Kenya and Tanzania
- NotesAdditional notes
- [by R. A. J. Maguire]
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Masai (African people)