Staging social structures: Ritual and social organisation in an egalitarian society. The pastoral pokot of Northern Kenya

Ethnos

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 341-365

  Bollig, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Network analysis; Pastoralists; Pokot; Ritual; Social change

Indexed keywords

EID: 84937327371     PISSN: 00141844     EISSN: 1469588X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00141840050198027     Document Type: Article

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