Kratz, Corinne Ann

Affecting performance meaning, movement, and experience in Okiek women's initiation /. - xviii, 469 p. ill., maps ;. - Smithsonian series in ethnographic inquiry .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 449-465) and index.

1560982349 (cloth) 156098273X (paper)


Initiation rites--Kenya--Mau Escarpment
Language and culture--Kenya--Mau Escarpment
Puberty rites--Kenya--Mau Escarpment
Women, Okiek--Rites and ceremonies


Mau Escarpment (Kenya)--Social life and customs.