Pokot



ETHNONYM: Suk


See also Nandi and Other Kalenjin Peoples


Bibliography

Bianco, Barbara A. (1991). "Women and Things: Pokot Motherhood as Political Destiny." American Ethnologist 18: 770-785.


Bianco, Barbara A. (1992). The Historical Anthropobgy of a Mission Hospital in Northwestern Kenya. Ann Arbor, Mich.: University Microfilms International.


Conant, Francis P. (1965). "Korok: A Variable Unit of Physical and Social Space among the Pokot of East Africa." American Anthropohgist 67:429-434.


Crazzolara, J. P. (1973). A Study of the Suk ( Pokot ) Language. Bologna: Editrice Missionaria Italiana.


Dietz, Ton (1987). Pastoralists in Dire Straits: Survival Strategies and External Interventions in a Semi-Arid Region at the Kenya/Uganda Border: Western Pokot, 1900-1986. Netherlands Geographical Studies, 49. Amsterdam: University of Amsterdam.


Edgerton, Robert B., and Francis P. Conant (1964). "Kilipat: The Shaming Party among the Pokot of East Africa." Southwest Journal of Anthropology 20:404-418.


Hasthrope, Elizabeth (1983). "A Study of Pokot Songs." Ph.D. dissertation, School of Oriental and African Studies (London).

Hendrix, Hubert, ed. (1985). District Atlas West Pokot. Nairobi: General Printers.


Huntingford, G. W. B. (1953). The Southern Nilo-Hamites. London: International African Institute.


Meyerhoff, Elizabeth (1981). "The Socio-Economic and Ritual Roles of Pokot Women." Ph.D. dissertation, Cambridge University.


Meyerhoff, Elizabeth (1982). "The Threatened Ways of Kenya's Pokot People." National Geographic 161:120-140.


Nyamwaya, David (1982). "The Management of Illness in an East African Society: A Study of Choice and Constraint in Health Care among the Pokot." Ph.D. dissertation, Cambridge University.


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Peristiany, John G. (1975). "The Ideal and the Actual: The Role of Prophets in the Pokot Political System." In Studies in Social Anthropobgy: Essays in Memory of E. E. Evans-Pritchard by his Former Oxford Colleagues, edited by J. H. M. Beattie and R. G. Lienhardt, 166-212. Oxford: Clarendon Press.


Reynolds, John Eric (1982). Community Underdevelopment, Ethnicity, and Stratification in a Rural Destination: Mnagei, Kenya. Ann Arbor, Mich.: University Microfilms International.


Schneider, Harold (1956). "The Interpretation of Pokot Visual Art." Man 56:103-106.


Schneider, Harold (1958). "Pokot Resistance to Change." In Continuity and Change in African Cultures, edited by William R. Bascom and Melville J. Herskovits, 144-167. Chicago: Phoenix Books.


Schneider, Harold (1967). "Pokot Folktales, Humor, and Values." Journal of the Folklore Institute 4:265-318.


Tully, Durene E. (1985). Human Ecology and Political Process: The Context of Market Incorporation in West Pokot District, Kenya. Ann Arbor, Mich.: University Microfilms International.

BARBARA A. BIANCO

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