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Title: | Nineteenth century settlement sites and related oral traditions from the Bungoma area? Western Kenya |
Author: | Scully, R.T.K. |
Year: | 1979 |
Periodical: | Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa |
Volume: | 14 |
Pages: | 81-96 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Kenya |
Subjects: | Luyia settlement patterns |
External link: | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00672707909511264 |
Abstract: | A survey of structural remains coupled with oral tradition sketches a picture of complicated socio-technical change during the 200 years preceding the onset of British administration of Elgon-Nyanza in the 1890s. The development of forts enabled Bantu farmers to enter contested areas, once the domain of Nilotic pastoralists, in reasonable security. The broad adaptive pattern discernable from information at hand seems to be that of successful agricultural hamlets sending out satellite populations into surrounding regions which in turn fortified themselves and developed farming. In the northern mountain regions this process of fort building and pioneering clearly continues after the turn of the century. The combination of a fort site survey with oral tradition has been valuable in revealing some of the key elements of individual and corporate activities contributing to rapid socio-cultural change and the development of a district Northern Luyia culture in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Ref., notes, tab., fig., pl. |