Go to AfricaBib home

Go to AfricaBib home AfricaBib Go to database home

bibliographic database
Line
Previous page New search

The free AfricaBib App for Android is available here

Periodical article Periodical article Leiden University catalogue Leiden University catalogue WorldCat catalogue WorldCat
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.
Views
Cover