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Some notes on the Masai of Kenya Colony
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britian and Ireland • 60 • Published In 1930 • Pages: 185-209
By: Leakey, L. S. B. (Louis Seymour Bazett).
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
These notes were gathered by Mr. Leakey from four Maasai informants living on the Maasai Reserve in the Mau Escarpment of Kenya. The bulk of data is arranged in terms of the individual life cycle both for the Maasai man and woman, including the customs and activities associated with sex-age category. The rest of the material covers diverse aspects of the total Maasai culture, such as their sex offenses and sanctions, murder and compensation, diet and food preparation, and death and burial customs. In short, this is an itemized culture summary of the pastoral Maasai of Kenya as told to Leakey by his Kikuyu-speaking informants.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Culture summary
- 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 TypesThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Anthropologist
- Archaeologist
- 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
- 1926-1929
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1900-1929
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Kenya
- NotesAdditional notes
- by L. S. B. Leakey, M.A., F.R.A.I.
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- sn79006341
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Masai (African people)