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Masai social customs
Journal of the East Africa and Uganda Natural History Society • (47-48) • Published In 1933 • Pages: 146-153
By: Whitehouse, L. E..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
These notes describing the formation of a new age-set among the Maasai were prepared from data collected among the I'Sigirari tribe. They relate the whole procedure which leads to the founding of a new [n]sirit[/n] or warrior company including the roles of the elders and medicine man. In addition to the ceremonies themselves, the status and function of the elected leader of the initiates (called the [n]aigwenani[/n]) is also discussed.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Age stratification
- 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.
- Unknown
- 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.
- 3: Good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent
- 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
- ca. 1926
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1926-1933
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- I'Sigirari tribe; Kenya and Tanzania
- NotesAdditional notes
- by L. E. Whitehouse
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Masai (African people)