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Okeik resource tenure and territoriality as mechanisms for social control and allocation of resources
SUGIA, Sprache und geschichte in Afrika • 7 (1) • Published In 1986 • Pages: 61-82
By: Blackburn, Roderic H..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This document presents an analysis of the resource tenure system which functions as a means for social control by limiting access to a very important forest resource–honey–as it relates to individual rights within a sub-territorial area. Each of the sub-territorial units is "owned" by individuals of the same lineage, involving not only ownership of the land itself but rights to certain resources on the land: specifically honey and trees in which beehives can be placed. How this tenure system operates in is described in detail.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Collecting
- Real property
- Land use
- Ingroup antagonisms
- Lineages
- Informal in-group justice
- Domesticated animals
- 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
- John Beierle; 2012
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1968-1970
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1968-1970
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Narok district, Rift Valley province, Kenya
- NotesAdditional notes
- by Roderic H. Blackburn
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 80-81)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 80642835
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Okiek (African people)
- Dorobo (African people)