| Description |
xv, 351 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction by Walter Goldschmidt -- 1. Procedures and methods: collection and coding of the data -- The decision to measure -- Constructing the interview battery -- Preparing the initial interview battery -- Pretesting -- The final interview battery -- The interviewing process -- Coding the data -- A review of the data -- 2. An introduction to the tribes -- The Hehe -- The Kamba -- The Pokot -- The Sebrei -- 3. An observer's impressions of life among pastoralists and farmers -- Hehe farmers -- He he Pastoralists -- Kamba farmers -- Kamba pastoralists -- Pokot farmers -- Pokot pastoralists -- Sebei farmers -- Sebei pastoralists -- 4. Cultural distinctiveness: the unique and characteristic responses of each tribe -- The findings -- Comparing the Bantu and Kalenjin tribes -- 5. The relationship of the respondents' age and sex to the response pattern -- The influence of age -- The influence of sex -- 6. The problem of European acculturation -- The relationship of European acculturation to the response pattern -- 7. Initial pastoral-farming comparisons -- The findings -- 8. The Rorschach findings -- Some findings common to all tribes -- A quantitative comparison of pastoralists farmers -- Qualitative analysis -- 9. A multivariate analysis -- The variability of the responses -- Multivariate analysis -- Smallest space analysis -- A factor analysis -- Acculturation reviewed -- 10. The environment: a search for some sources of ecological differentiation -- The research -- Selection and measurement of varibales -- Reviewing the interview variables -- The search for sources -- 11. Conclusion -- Problems in the study of cultural change -- Ecology and the individual |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 331-345. |
| Subject |
Ethnology -- Africa, East.
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Human geography -- Africa, East.
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Social change -- Case studies.
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| ISBN |
0520017307 |
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