Abstract
THE Kipsigis, better known among Europeans and to an earlier generation of anthropologists as the Lumbwa, are numerically the most considerable group of Nilotic Hamites in Kenya, their nearest affinities being the Nandi, Suk, Kamasia and Turkana. With the Masai they have a traditional enmity, which they trace back to the time of their first entry into the country they now occupy. This migration, it is to be presumed, was from the north.
The Social Institutions of the Kipsigis
By Dr. J. G. Peristiany. Pp. xxxiv + 288 + 24 plates. (London: George Routledge and Sons, Ltd., 1939.) 18s. net.
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The Social Institutions of the Kipsigis. Nature 145, 877 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/145877a0
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