Pokot masculinity : the role of rituals in forming men / Kjartan Jónsson.

Format:

Book

Thesis/Dissertation

Author/Creator:

Kjartan Jónsson, 1954-

Contributor:

Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Icelandic

Subjects (All):

Suk (African people)--Rites and ceremonies.

Suk (African people).

Suk (African people)--Psychology.

Suk (African people)--Social life and customs.

Puberty rites--Kenya--West Pokot District.

Puberty rites.

Initiation rites--Kenya--West Pokot District.

Initiation rites.

Masculinity--Kenya--West Pokot District.

Masculinity.

Men--Kenya--West Pokot District.

Men.

Manners and customs.

Psychology.

Rites and ceremonies.

West Pokot District (Kenya)--Social life and customs.

West Pokot District (Kenya).

Kenya--West Pokot District.

Physical Description:

xiv, 356 pages : illustrations, maps, photographs ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Reykjavík [Iceland] : University of Iceland, Faculty of Social Sciences, 2006.

Language Note:

Text in English with abstracts in English and Icelandic.

Summary:

In his 2006 dissertation for the University of Iceland, Kyartan contributes to masculinity studies with a case study of Pokot men in Kenya. He explores how the rituals that Pokot men go through from birth to death, the age-set system, and the male institutions of war and cattle-exchange shape their identity. Among the contexts he considers are the Pokot religion and similar patterns of ritual in related peoples of the Nilotic group and Kalenjin sub-group. He does not provide an index. Distributed in North America by The David Brown Book Co. Annotation ©2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Notes:

Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Iceland, 2006.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-309).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9979547103

9789979547105

OCLC:

84758770