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Pokot Sanctions and Structure1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 August 2012

J. G. Peristiany
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This paper attempts to relate some types of sanctions and some agencies of social control to their structural background. When the analysis has been made the interrelation may appear self-evident. This may simply mean that we recognize that a certain type of social structure is a condition of the operation of a certain type of sanctions. The study of these interrelations may enable us to gain a better understanding of both sanctions and structure.

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Les Pokot, tribu nilo-hamitique du nord-ouest du Kenya, peuvent se diviser en trois sections, l'une pastorale, l'autre d'économie mixte et la troisième dans laquelle l'économie des terres basses domine. L'auteur essaie d'établir les variations concomitantes entre la morphologie sociale et le système des sanctions.

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Africa , Volume 24 , Issue 1 , January 1954 , pp. 17 - 25
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Copyright © International African Institute 1954

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page 17 note 2 ‘West Suk’.

page 17 note 3 These figures do not refer to the latest census.

page 17 note 4 In reality there are three divisions of this type, but the mixed-economy Pokot of the central hills are not discussed in the present paper.

page 19 note 1 The actual names have been altered.

page 19 note 2 The complex system of segmentation is only outlined here.

page 20 note 1 About one-half of the inhabitants of this village were members of the same Hawk sub-clan; 79 per cent, of those now residing in the village of the dead man are members of his sub-clan.

page 20 note 2 Representing the different descent groups within the federation.

page 21 note 1 Although in the second case, which was considered to be one of exceptional gravity, elders from the other villages of the federation participated in the trial.

page 24 note 1 Mainly Karamojong.

page 24 note 2 The average density of population for ‘West Suk’ is 13–5 per square mile, 14 for two eastern irrigation areas, and certainly less than 6 for many pastoral areas. These figures refer to the population estimate given on p. 17.