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Title:Clientship in East Africa
Author:Mair, Lucy P.ISNI
Year:1961
Periodical:Cahiers d'études africaines
Volume:2
Issue:6
Pages:315-325
Language:English
Geographic terms:Uganda
Sudan
Subjects:patronage
Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups)
External link:https://doi.org/10.3406/cea.1961.2976
Abstract:Clientship could perhaps be defined as 'a relationship of dpendence not based on kinship, and formally entered into by an act of deliberate choice'. It is a basis of social differentiation in two different ways: it creates formally recognised relationships of superiority and subordination, defined by other criteria than seniority; it is the main channel of social mobility in some societies. The author illustrated her argument with examples from Uganda, Sudan and Ruanda.
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