In the land of milk and honey: Okiek adaptations to their forests and neighbours

Blackburn, Roderic H.

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In the land of milk and honey: Okiek adaptations to their forests and neighbours

politics and history in band societies • Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] • Published In 1982 • Pages: 283-305

By: Blackburn, Roderic H..

Abstract
In this paper the author describes the use of their forest and it resources and relationships to neighboring groups–relationships of mutual interdependence. The complexity of these relationships are discussed in terms of certain needs which the groups fulfill for each other and the fact that the Okiek, being a small and scattered people, live in close proximity to much larger and more powerful groups with whom they wish to maintain amicable relations.