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The Samburu: A Study of Gerontocracy in a Nomadic Tribe

By Paul Spencer
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By Paul Spencer
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The Samburu: A Study of Gerontocracy in a Nomadic Tribe by Paul Spencer offers a rich ethnographic account of a pastoral society in northern Kenya whose political and social life is organized around the authority of elders. Closely related linguistically and culturally to the Masai, the Samburu nonetheless developed their own distinctive institutions, shaped by the arid ecology of their homeland and by crises such as the devastating rinderpest and smallpox epidemics of the late nineteenth c...

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