Land conflict, murder, and the rise of “timeless culture” and girl blaming (Samburu, Kenya)

The paper examines youthful practices in the Samburu pastoralist age set system as they evolved into tropes of warrior girlfriends inciting masculine violence. Through a close examination of a well-publicized Kenyan court case surrounding the suspicious death in 1931 of Theodore Powys, a British set...

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Main Author: Bilinda Straight
Format: Article
Language:fra
Published: Laboratoire d'Ethnologie et de Sociologie Comparative 2020-01-01
Series:Ateliers d'Anthropologie
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/ateliers/12553
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