The Problem with Boys: Bridewealth Accumulation, Sibling Gender, and the Propensity to Participate in Cattle Raiding among the Kuria of Tanzania
Although a fair amount has been written on the subject of African crime in general, and East African Livestock theft in particular, scant effort has been made to establish who, in a sociological sense, the criminals are. Among the Kuria, cattle theft is the occupation of choice of young Kuria men, w...
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| Published in: | Current anthropology Vol. 45; no. 2; pp. 284 - 288 |
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| Main Authors: | , |
| Format: | Journal Article |
| Language: | English |
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Chicago
The University of Chicago Press
01-04-2004
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| Summary: | Although a fair amount has been written on the subject of African crime in general, and East African Livestock theft in particular, scant effort has been made to establish who, in a sociological sense, the criminals are. Among the Kuria, cattle theft is the occupation of choice of young Kuria men, whose households lack a sufficient number of daughters to bring enough number of bridewealth cattle into the household to enable the sons to acquire their first wives. Fleisher and Holloway analyze the field data collected in a random survey of agro-pastoral Kuria of the Tarime District in northern Tanzania to illuminate the characters of homesteads likely to include cattle raiders among their residents. |
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| ISSN: | 0011-3204 1537-5382 |
| DOI: | 10.1086/382257 |