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Fission, fusion, and foragers in East Africa: micro- and macroprocesses of diversity and integration among Okiek groups
Cultural diversity among twentieth-century foragers : an African perspective • Cambridge • Published In 1996 • Pages: 188-212, 305-333
By: Blackburn, Roderic H..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article addresses in-group diversity, demonstrating in the process of how interpersonal conflicts develop–typically unrelated to subsistence and resulting in residence changes–and how these result in additional social and cultural changes. The author centers this study on the processes of migration in which contact is made with subgroups, and with peoples of other beliefs and practices. Due to such contacts, there is a continual process of mutual social and cultural adaptation; in each case influenced by a variety of existing conditions, motivations, and the singular nature of the events themselves.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Theoretical orientation in research and its results
- Lineages
- Ingroup antagonisms
- Cultural participation
- Internal migration
- Acculturation and culture contact
- External relations
- Inter-community relations
- Social relationships and groups
- Information sources listed in other works
- 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
- essay
- 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, 1990-1992
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1968-1992
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Mau Forest Okiek, Narok and Nakuru districts, Rift Valley province, Kenya
- NotesAdditional notes
- Roderic H. Blackburn
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 95017648
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Okiek (African people)
- Dorobo (African people)