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The economic life of the Dorobo
Anthropos • 50 • Published In 1955 • Pages: 602-634
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 discusses diet and economic activities. He includes the use of wild plants, hunting, trapping, trade, sexual division of labor, bee-keeping, agriculture, domestic animals, concepts of the ownership and use of real property, and a general discussion of the exploitation of the forest habitat.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Domesticated animals
- Collecting
- Hunting and trapping
- Routes
- External trade
- Diet
- Division of labor by gender
- Ethnozoology
- Tillage
- Real property
- Clans
- 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)
- Northern 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)