Details

Subject(s)

• Nandi (African people) [Browse]

Series

• Africa (Routledge (Firm)) ; 10. [More in this series]
• Routledge library editions.Anthropology and ethnography
• Africa ; 10

Summary note

This book examines the political structure of the Nandi tribe in the first half of the twentieth century and contains chapters on the following: · Land divisions and local authorities · Age-sets · War organisation · Administrative changes · Law · Religion. First published in 1953

Notes

First issued in paperback 2011--T.p. verso.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source of description

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Language note

English

Contents

• Front Cover; The Nandi of Kenya; Copyright Page; The Nandi of Kenya; Foreword By Sir Claud Hollis, G.C.M.G.; Preface; Note on Orthography; Contents; I. Introductory; II. Land Divisions and Local Authorities; 1. Land units; Appendix: Koret-names; 2. The Kokwet; Appendix I. Kokwet trees; Appendix II. The Kiruoget ap Akgautiet; 3. The Pororiet Council; 4. Nandi unity; 5. The orkoiyot; III. Age-Sets; Appendix I. Korongoro and Kipkoiimet; Appendix II. Age-sets and sexual matters; IV. War Organization; V. Administrative Changes; VI. Law; 1. General principles
• 2. The consequences of wrong-doingVII. Religion; Bibliography of the Nandi; Index and Glossary of Nandi words

Other title(s)

Tribal control in a pastoral society

ISBN

• 1-135-64951-0
• 0-203-71516-0
• 1-283-88637-5
• 1-135-64944-8

OCLC

• 823389335
• 847599041
• 610251222

Doi

• 10.4324/9780203715161

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