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Title: | Some consequences of sedentarization for social relationships |
Author: | Baxter, P.T.W. |
Book title: | Les sociétés pastorales en Afrique tropicale |
Year: | 1975 |
Pages: | 206-228 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Kenya |
Subjects: | Boran sedentarization |
Abstract: | This paper is concerned with the Boran in northern Kenya. Some features of their society are compared with some features of southwest Asian pastoralists. The author suggests that sedentarization has consequences for the range of the spread of the sets of social relationships which interconnect heads of homesteads and for the social obligations which these relationships involve. Bibliogr., notes. Résumé en français. |