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Title: | A preliminary report on the ethnobotany of the Suiei Dorobo in northern Kenya |
Author: | Ichikawa, Mitsuo |
Year: | 1987 |
Periodical: | African Study Monographs: Supplementary Issue |
Issue: | 7 |
Pages: | 1-52 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Kenya |
Subjects: | Dorobo ethnobotany |
External link: | http://repository.kulib.kyoto-u.ac.jp/dspace/bitstream/2433/68347/1/ASM_S_7_1.pdf |
Abstract: | In the course of an ecological and anthropological study on the Suiei Dorobo hunter-gatherers of the Mathew's Range, northern Kenya, carried out for a total of eleven months from 1976 to 1978, the author collected 1,026 plant specimens and corresponding ethnobotanical information. The specimens comprise 569 scientific species, for each of which a brief botanical and ethnographic description is made. Of the 569 species, the Suiei utilize 123 as food, 231 as medicine, 50 for various rituals, and 176 as materials for construction and making various instruments and other items of material culture. 121 others are used indirectly, as fodder or as a source of nectar. The plants' vernacular names are compared with the Latin (scientific) names, and the characteristics of their utilization pattern are discussed. Bibliogr. |