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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..
Abstract
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.
- HRAF PubDate
- 2014
- Region
- Africa
- Sub Region
- Eastern Africa
- Document Type
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- John Beierle; 2012
- Field Date
- 1968-1970, 1990-1992
- Coverage Date
- 1968-1992
- Coverage Place
- Mau Forest Okiek, Narok and Nakuru districts, Rift Valley province, Kenya
- Notes
- Roderic H. Blackburn
- LCCN
- 95017648
- LCSH
- Okiek (African people)
- Dorobo (African people)