Gusii

ETHNONYMS: Abagusii, Kisii, Kossowa, Wakisii

Bibliography

Hakansson, N. Thomas (1988). Bridewealth, Women, and Land: Social Change among the Gusii of Kenya. Uppsala Studies in Cultural Anthropology, no. 9. Stockholm: Almkvist & Wiksell International.

Hakansson, N. Thomas (1994a). "Detachable Women: Gender and Kinship in Process of Socioeconomic Change among the Gusii of Kenya." American Ethnologist 21:516-538.

Hakansson, N. Thomas (1994b). "Grain, Cattle, and Power: The Social Processes of Intensive Cultivation and Exchange in Precolonial Western Kenya." Journal of Anthropological Research 50:249-276.

Hakansson, N. Thomas, and Robert A. LeVine (1995). "Contradiction and Change: Gender and Divergent Life-Course Strategies among the Gusii." In African Families and the Crisis of Social Change, edited by Thomas Weisner, Candice Bradley, and Philip Kilbride. New York: Greenwood Press. In press.

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LeVine, Robert A. (1982). "Gusii Funerals: Meanings of Life and Death in an African Community." Ethos 10:26-65.

LeVine, Robert A., and Barbara B. LeVine (1966). Nyansongo: A Gusii Community in Kenya. Six Cultures Series, vol. 2. New York: John Wiley & Sons.

LeVine, Robert A., Sarah LeVine, P. Herbert Leiberman, T. Betty Brazelton, Suzanne Dixon, Amy Richman, and Constance H. Keefer (1994). Child Care and Culture: Lessons from Africa. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

LeVine, Sarah (1979). Mothers and Wives: Gusii Women of East Africa. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

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Mayer, Philip (1949). The Lineage Principle in Gusii Society. International African Institute Memorandum no. 24. London: Oxford University Press.

Mayer, Philip (1950). Gusii Bridewealth Law and Custom. The Rhodes-Livingstone Papers, no. 18. London: Oxford University Press.

N. THOMAS HAKANSSON