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The economic life of the Dorobo

Anthropos50Published 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)