Igorrote Marriage Customs

1901 ◽  
Vol 14 (54) ◽  
pp. 204
Author(s):  
H. M. Wiltse
Keyword(s):  
Sociologus ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 70 (2) ◽  
pp. 143-158
Author(s):  
Sebastian Schellhaas ◽  
Mario Schmidt ◽  
Gilbert Francis Odhiambo

Based upon ethnographic fieldwork in Western Kenya, this article re-evaluates the widespread assumption that commensality constructs or, at least, earmarks kin or kin-like relations. In contrast to such generalizations, our ethnographic data suggests that the relation between kinship and social practices such as eating together is culturally not predetermined in Western Kenya. This understanding of the relation between social practices and kinship as indeterminate allows the inhabitants of Kaleko, a small marketplace in Western Kenya, to use different and conflicting strategies of ‘declaring kin’. These conflicting strategies include assertions of biological kinship, refusals to clarify the specific kin-relation and evocations of love and care. Understanding kinship as an effect of strategic practices of individuals and not of cultural norms or social practices has analytical repercussions for an analysis of marriage customs and infertility.


1964 ◽  
Vol s3-VI (151) ◽  
pp. 415-416
Author(s):  
Edward Parfitt
Keyword(s):  

1915 ◽  
Vol s11-XI (267) ◽  
pp. 106-107
Author(s):  
John B. Wainewright
Keyword(s):  

1898 ◽  
Vol s9-II (31) ◽  
pp. 89-89
Author(s):  
W. J. Gadsden
Keyword(s):  

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