Korok: a variable unit of physical and social space among the Pokot of East Africa

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Title:	Korok: a variable unit of physical and social space among the Pokot of East Africa
Author:	Conant, F.P.
Year:	1965
Periodical:	American Anthropologist (ISSN 0002-7294)
Volume:	67
Issue:	2
Period:	April
Pages:	429-434
Language:	English
Geographic term:	Kenya
Subjects:	Suk Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups)
External link:	https://www.jstor.org/stable/668257
Abstract:	This paper has two objectives: to indicate some of the ways in which the subsistence techniques of a people - the farming and herding technologies of the Pokot of west central Kenya - appear to condition certain other aspects of their culture; to show how the different meanings of the Pokot term korok dissect the physical and social environments into units of considerable significance to both farmers and herders. The substance of this paper is presented by way of an examination of these units and their variable contents. In his conclusions the author relates the korok to an important aspect of Pokot cultural behavior - the interdependence of farmers and herders, and the sense of ethnic unity which both display. References cited; notes.