Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource
Series Statement:
eHRAF World Cultures
Keywords:
Luo (Kenyan and Tanzanian people)
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Luo (Nilotic tribe)
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Kinship--Kenya
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Law, Luo (Kenya and Tanzania) Marriage (Luo Kenya and Tanzanial law)
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Luo (Nilotic tribe) Social change
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Language and culture
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Ethnicity--Kenya
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Luo (Kenyan and Tanzanian people)--Money
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Luo (Kenyan and Tanzanian people)--Economic conditions
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Economic anthropology--Kenya
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Kenya--Economic conditions
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Luo
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Luo
Abstract:
The Luo collection covers cultural, historical, economic and demographic information circa 1895 to 2000. There are a number of general ethnographies on Luo culture and society as observed by professional anthropologists in late the 1920s to the mid-1930s. Specific themes covered in these works include tribes, kinship and social organization, marriage and sex restrictions, religion, life cycles and burials. These ethnographic accounts are further supplemented by the works of historian Jean Hay, discussing changes in material culture and gender relations that took place before the Second World War as a direct result of British colonial rule and the complex forces it set in motion. The collection also includes anthropological works that specifically focus on the post Second World War decade with particular emphasis on dynamics of lineage and family ties, customary law and Luo attitudes toward homicide and suicide. Other documents in the collection focus on the actual experiences of Luo men and women with urbanization and nationally designed development programs in the post-independence period (1963-2000). Specific themes covered include Luo responses to urbanization, modern education and population growth, changes in public health and nutrition, land policy, and the local effects of labor migration and global market forces; and misguided development programs. The remaining documents by Blount provide a linguistic analysis of Luo genealogical accounting, personal naming systems, and comprehensive bibliographic information of existing works on Luo culture and society, circa 1920-2000
Note:
Culture summary: Luo - Ingrid Herbich - 2011 -- - The Luo of Kenya - by Audrey Butt - 1952 -- - Luo tribes and clans - by E. E. Evans-Pritchard - 1949 -- - Marriage customs of the Luo of Kenya - E. E. Evans-Pritchard - 1950 -- - Some preliminary notes on Luo marriage customs - K. C. Shaw - 1932 -- - Some customs of the Luwo (or Nilotic Kavirondo) living in South Kavirondo - By The Rev. H. Hartmann - 1928 -- - Ghostly vengeance among the Luo of Kenya - by Professor E. E. Evans-Pritchard - 1950 -- - Lineage formation among the Luo - by A. Southall - 1952 -- - Homicide and suicide among the Joluo of Kenya - G. M. Wilson - 1960 -- - Luo customary law and marriage laws customs - Gordon M. Wilson - 1961 -- - The cultural definition of political response: lineal destiny among the Luo - David Parkin - 1978 --
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- Bitter money: cultural economy and some African meanings of forbidden commodities - Parker Shipton - 1989 -- - Daughters of the lakes and rivers: colonization and the land rights of Luo women - Achola Pala Okeyo - 1980 -- - Women in the household economy: managing multiple roles - Achola Pala Okeyo - 1979 -- - Agreeing to agree on genealogy: a Luo sociology of knowledge - Ben G. Blount - [1975] -- - Luo personal names: reference and meaning - Ben G. Blount - 1993 -- - Hoes and clothes in a Luo household: changing consumption in a colonial economy, 1906-1936 - Margaret Jean Hay - 1996 -- - Women as owners, occupants, and managers of property in colonial western Kenya - Margaret Jean Hay - 1982 -- - The significance of earth-eating: social and cultural aspects of geophagy among Luo children - P. Wenzel Geissler - 2000 -- - Medicinal plants used by Luo mothers and children in Bondo district, Kenya - P. Wenzel Geissler, Stephen A. Harris, Ruth J. Prince, Anja Olsen, R. Achieng' Odhiambo, Helen Oketch-Rabah, Philister A. Madiega, Anne Andersen, Per Mølgaard - 2002 --
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- Luo entrustment: foreign finance and the soil of the spirits in Kenya - Parker Shipton - 1995 -- - Debts and trespasses: land, mortgages, and the ancestors in western Kenya - Parker Shipton - 1992 -- - Siaya: the historical anthropology of an African landscape - David William Cohen, E.S. Atiendo Odhiambo - 1989 -- - Luo bibliography - Benjamin Blount - 2010
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