Gusii - Bibliography


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Coxon, Ann
The Kisii art of trephining
Guy's Hospital Gazette, 76:263, 1962

Furnas, David W.; et al
Traditional craniotomies of the Kisii tribe of Kenya
In Annals of Plastic Surgery, 15(6): 538-556, 1985

Grounds, John G.
Trephining of the skull amongst the Kisii
In East African Medical Journal, 35:369, 1958

Gwako, Edwins Laban Moogi
Continuity and Change in the Practice of Clitoridectomy in Kenya: A Case Study of the Abagusii
In Journal of Modern African Studies 33, no.2 (1995)

Hakansson, Thomas
Bridewealth, Women and Land: Social Changes among the Gusii of Kenya
In Uppsala Studies in Cultural Anthropology No.10, Uppsala: Almquist and Wiksell International, 1988

Hakansson, Thomas
Grain, cattle and power: Social processes of intensive cultivation and exchange in pre-colonial western Kenya
In Journal of Anthropological Research, Vol. 50(3), pp. 249-276 (1994)

Hakansson, Thomas
Landless Gusii Women: A Result of Customary Land Law and Modern Marriage Patterns
Working Papers in African Studies, African Studies Programme: Department of Cultural Anthropology, University of Uppsala, 1986

Kenny, Michael G.
The Stranger from the Lake: a theme in the history of the Lake Victoria shorelands
In Azania, XVII (1982)

LeVine, Robert A.
Gusii funerals: meanings of life and death in an African community
In Ethos 19(1): 25-65, 1982

LeVine, Robert; LeVine, Barbara
Nyansongo: A Gusii Community in Kenya
Vol. II of the Six cultures: Studies of child rearing series (ed. B.B. Whiting)
New York, USA: John Wiley and Sons, 1966; also Also Huntington, NY: Robert E. Krieger, 1977

LeVine, Sarah; LeVine, Robert
Mothers and Wives: Gusii Women of East Africa
Chicago, USA: University of Chicago Press, 1979

Lonsdale, J.
When did the Gusii (or any other group) become a "tribe"?
In Kenyan History Review 5, 123-33, 1977

Margetts, E.L.
Trepanation of the skull by the medicine-men of primitive cultures, with particular reference to present-day native East African practice
In Donald R. Brothwell and A. T. Sandison (eds.), Diseases in Antiquity (Springfield, Illionois: Charles C. Thomas, 1967).

Mayer, Philip
Ekeigoroigoro: A Gusii Rite of Passage
In Man 53, no.1,2 (1953)

Mayer, Philip
Gusii Bridewealth, Law and Custom
Rhodes-Livingstone Papers, no. 18, 1950

Mayer, Philip
Gusii Initiation Ceremonies
In The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 83, no.1 (1953)

Mayer, Philip
The Lineage Principle in Gusii Society
In International African Institute Memorandum no.24, London, 1949

Ochieng', William R.
A Pre-colonial history of the Gusii of western Kenya
Nairobi, Kenya: East African Literature Bureau, 1974

Ochieng', William
An Outline History of Nyanza up to 1914
Nairobi, Kenya: East African Literature Bureau, 1974

Ochieng', William R.
Kenya's People: Peoples of the South-Western Highlands - Gusii
Nairobi, Kenya: Evans Brothers, 1986

Schmidt, Margarethe Silber
Have Women Become the Weaker Sex? Changing Life Situations in Kisii District, Kenya
In Journal of Modern African Studies 20,2, 1992

Wipper, Audrey
The Gusii Rebels
In Protest and Power in Black Africa, edited by Robert I. Rotberg and Ali Mazrui
Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 1970


 
 
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