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The political organization of the Dorobo
Anthropos • 49 • Published In 1954 • Pages: 123-148
By: Huntingford, George Wynn Brereton.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
The information in this paper is primarily about clans and their functions, clan councils, and offenses (crimes and torts) and their sanctions. To this, the author has added an excellent section on religious beliefs and practices, and their social functions.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Clans
- Community councils
- Districts
- Offenses and sanctions
- General character of religion
- Spirits and gods
- Eschatology
- Ethnozoology
- 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, 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)