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Title:Gender & material culture in West Pokot, Kenya
Author:Bianco, Barbara
Book title:Rethinking Pastoralism in Africa: Gender, Culture and the Myth of the Patriarchal Pastoralist
Year:2000
Pages:29-42
Language:English
Geographic term:Kenya
Subjects:Suk
adornment
women
Cultural Roles
Sex Roles
Abstract:This chapter explores how Pokot women in northwestern Kenya make and use cowhide belts ('lökötyö') to support and sometimes undermine the clans for which they bear children. By analyzing the design, symbolic associations, and uses of these commonplace but powerful items of adornment, it shows how one East African patrilineal society deals with the problematic nature of maternal nurture. More generally, the chapter suggests that, by attending to the wide variety of things that women make and wear, a better understanding may be achieved of the political ramifications of motherhood. Bibliogr., notes, ref.
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