Nyoro Kinship1

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

E-ISSN: 1750-0184|27|4|317-340

ISSN: 0001-9720

Source: Africa: The Journal of the International African Institute, Vol.27, Iss.4, 1957-10, pp. : 317-340

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Abstract

In this article and in a succeeding one I give a preliminary account of Nyoro kinship and affinal terms, together with some description of the expected and actual behaviour associated with the categories they denote. I hope at a later date to publish a very much fuller account, but it may in the meantime be useful to put on record a broad outline of the Nyoro system, so far undescribed except for the few pages devoted to it in Roscoe's work. In the present article I discuss Nyoro categories of kin; in the one which follows I shall consider affinal relationships and Nyoro notions about them.