Paul Spencer

The Samburu (eBook, PDF)

A Study in Geocentracy

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Samburu society is a gerontocracy in which power rests with the older men; men under thirty may not marry or otherwise assert their personal independence. The author spent more than two years during the 1960s among the Samburu, and as an adopted member of one of their clans, he perceived how their values and attitudes are closely interwoven with a social system that resists change.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2004
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134371532
• Artikelnr.: 43071442

Autorenporträt

Paul Spencer

Inhaltsangabe

PREFACE TO NEW EDITION
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
INTRODUCTION
1. THE PASTORAL ECONOMY
2. CLANSHIP AND EXOGAMY
3. THE FAMILY AND THE HERD
4. THE STRUCTURE OF SAMBURU SOCIETY
5. THE MORAN
6. THE MORAN AND THE TOTAL SOCIETY
7. ELDERHOOD AND THE CURSE
8. THE STATUS OF WOMEN
9. SOCIAL ATTITUDES AND CEREMONY
10. THE SAMBURU AND SOME NEIGHBOURING TRIBES: A COMPARISON
11. CONCLUSION: THE GERONTOCRATIC SOCIETY
APPENDIX: Census Techniques and Data
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX