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The economic life of the Dorobo

Anthropos50 • Published In 1955 • Pages: 602-634

By: Huntingford, George Wynn Brereton.

Abstract
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.
Subjects
Domesticated animals
Collecting
Hunting and trapping
Routes
External trade
Diet
Division of labor by gender
Ethnozoology
Tillage
Real property
Clans
culture
Okiek
HRAF PubDate
2014
Region
Africa
Sub Region
Eastern Africa
Document Type
article
Evaluation
Creator Type
Ethnologist
Document Rating
5: Excellent Primary Data
Analyst
Robert J. Theodoratus ; 1962
Field Date
1938-1939
Coverage Date
1938-1939
Coverage Place
Northern Tinderet Forest Reserve, west-central Kenya
Notes
G. W. B. Huntingford
LCCN
53020365
LCSH
Okiek (African people)
Dorobo (African people)