TY - JOUR
T1 - Dholuo kincepts in western kenya
AU - Onyango-Ouma, Washington
AU - Aagaard-Hansen, Jens
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We are grateful to the informants as well as the Nyang?oma community in general for embracing this and many of our other anthropological studies since 1993. We are grateful to DBL ? Centre for Health Research and Development, University of Copenhagen for strongly facilitating the study ? financially and administratively. Also thanks to the Institute of Anthropology, Gender and African Studies, University of Nairobi for logistical facilitation and to linguistic scholars for valuable advice. We also acknowledge the invaluable assistance of the librarians who helped in accessing at times very hidden and old manuscripts. Last but not least thanks to anonymous reviewers and the editor for their guidance in the cross-disciplinary field between linguistics and anthropology.
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PY - 2020/9/29
Y1 - 2020/9/29
N2 - The Luo are a Nilotic people living in western Kenya, north-eastern Tanzania and in western Uganda. Their language, Dholuo, forms part of the Western Nilotic group of languages. This article presents the traditional kincepts (kinship terminology) of the Luo people as described by elders living in Central Sakwa location, Siaya County, western part of Kenya. The kincepts for consanguine as well as affine relatives in up to three ascending and five descending generations are described. The paper applies a combined linguistic and anthropological approach. Linguistically, the terms are analysed in relation to current Dholuo vocabulary, grammar and modes of expression. Anthropologically, the Luo kinship rules of patrilineality and virilocality are considered. The domain of kincepts is a research field bringing together linguistics, anthropology and history. It contributes to the inquiry of diachronic linguistics, which can provide insights on the development and interaction of related languages as well as population groups’ migratory patterns not least in parts of the world where written historical sources are scarce.
AB - The Luo are a Nilotic people living in western Kenya, north-eastern Tanzania and in western Uganda. Their language, Dholuo, forms part of the Western Nilotic group of languages. This article presents the traditional kincepts (kinship terminology) of the Luo people as described by elders living in Central Sakwa location, Siaya County, western part of Kenya. The kincepts for consanguine as well as affine relatives in up to three ascending and five descending generations are described. The paper applies a combined linguistic and anthropological approach. Linguistically, the terms are analysed in relation to current Dholuo vocabulary, grammar and modes of expression. Anthropologically, the Luo kinship rules of patrilineality and virilocality are considered. The domain of kincepts is a research field bringing together linguistics, anthropology and history. It contributes to the inquiry of diachronic linguistics, which can provide insights on the development and interaction of related languages as well as population groups’ migratory patterns not least in parts of the world where written historical sources are scarce.
KW - Anthropology
KW - Dholuo
KW - History
KW - Kenya
KW - Kincepts
KW - Kinship Terminology
KW - Luo
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85115259309
U2 - 10.32473/sal.v49i2.125889
DO - 10.32473/sal.v49i2.125889
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:85115259309
SN - 0039-3533
VL - 49
SP - 305
EP - 321
JO - Studies in African Linguistics
JF - Studies in African Linguistics
IS - 2
ER -