book chapter
The family herds: a study of two pastoral tribes in East Africa, the Jie and Turkana
Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd • London • Published In 1955 • Pages: i-xvi, 1-48, and 124-271
By: Gulliver, P. H..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This source is an analysis of regulations governing herds and flocks of animals as property and the interrelationship of these with the kinship system among the Jie of Uganda and the Turkana of Kenya. Information on the Jie contained in the pages of this source that have been processed have been filed in Categories 17 and 171. The topics discussed with regard to the Turkana include the ecology of Turkanaland, animal husbandry, the nuclear family and property, the extended family and property, stock association relationships between kin and bond-friends, and marriage and bridewealth.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Pastoral activities
- Annual cycle
- Comparative evidence
- Social relationships and groups
- Household
- Settlement patterns
- Basis of marriage
- Family relationships
- Lineages
- Kin relationships
- Mode of marriage
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Turkana
- 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
- book chapter
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- 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
- Gerald Reid ; 1988
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1948-1950
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1940-1955
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- vicinity of Lake Turkana (Lake Rudolf), Kenya
- NotesAdditional notes
- by P. H. Gulliver
- Only pages i-xvi, 1-48, and 124-271 have been processed for the FL17 Turkana file
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 55004622
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Turkana (African people)