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Patriliny Among the Gusii and the Luo of Kenya
Author(s) -
GLICKMAN MAURICE
Publication year - 1974
Publication title -
american anthropologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.51
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1548-1433
pISSN - 0002-7294
DOI - 10.1525/aa.1974.76.2.02a00040
Subject(s) - hostility , bantu languages , scarcity , power (physics) , colonialism , ethnology , sociology , history , anthropology , geography , archaeology , philosophy , economics , psychology , social psychology , market economy , linguistics , physics , quantum mechanics
The Nilotic Luo of Kenya, in contrast to the Nuer, experienced considerable land scarcity. They responded with increasing hostility as much to their affines as to the colonial power which had enclosed land. Exclusive local patrilineages emerged, expressing themselves in collective feuding, litigation, and ritual toward immediate ancestors. A similar process seems to have occurred among the sociologically similar neighboring Bantu‐speaking Gusii .