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The social institutions of the Dorobo
Anthropos • 46 • Published In 1951 • Pages: 1-48
By: Huntingford, George Wynn Brereton.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
In this paper the author is primarily concerned with those aspects of social organization which relate to the family and to the clan. As such, the topics that receive the fullest attention are kinship, the role of kinsmen in child socialization, the age-set system, the role of clan membership, marriage, birth, and sex life.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Identification
- Kinship
- Tribe and nation
- Clans
- Settlement patterns
- Age stratification
- Marriage
- Naming
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Family relationships
- Premarital sex relations
- Transmission of cultural norms
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Okiek
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2014
- 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.
- 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
- Robert J. Theodoratus ; 1962
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1938-1939
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1938-1939
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Kipkurerek Okiek, Tinderet Forest Reserve, west-central Kenya
- NotesAdditional notes
- G. W. B. Huntingford
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 53020365
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Okiek (African people)
- Dorobo (African people)