Mortuary Symbolism and Social Differentiation at Mokrin

ABSTRACTRising competition and conflict over land in rural sub-Saharan Africa continues to attract the attention of researchers. Recent work has especially focused on land governance, post-conflict restructuring of tenure relations, and large-scale land acquisitions. A less researched topic as of late, though one deserving of greater consideration, pertains to how social differentiation on the local-level shapes relations to land, and how these processes are rooted in specific historical developments. Drawing on fieldwork conducted in Teso sub-region of eastern Uganda, this paper analyses three specific land conflicts and situates them within a broad historical trajectory. I show how each dispute illuminates changes in class relations in Teso since the early 1990s. I argue that this current period of socioeconomic transformation, which includes the formation of a more clearly defined sub-regional middle class and elite, constitutes the most prominent period of social differentiation in Teso since the early 20th century.

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6. The Sample Households: Patterns of Social Differentiation

Peasants in the Making ◽

10.1355/9789814345545-007 ◽

1987 ◽

pp. 73-116

Keyword(s):

Social Differentiation

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5. The Village Households: Indicators of Social Differentiation

Peasants in the Making ◽

10.1355/9789814345545-006 ◽

1987 ◽

pp. 60-72

Keyword(s):

Social Differentiation ◽

The Village

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Social Differentiation in the Use of English Vocabulary

International Journal of Corpus Linguistics ◽

10.1075/ijcl.2.1.07ray ◽

1997 ◽

Vol 2 (1) ◽

pp. 133-152 ◽

Cited By ~ 62

Author(s):

Paul Rayson ◽

Geoffrey N. Leech ◽

Mary Hodges

Keyword(s):

Social Group ◽

Geographical Region ◽

Social Differentiation ◽

Future Research ◽

Analysis Tool ◽

Spoken English ◽

Transcription System ◽

Group A ◽

British National Corpus ◽

National Corpus

In this article, we undertake selective quantitative analyses of the demographi-cally-sampled spoken English component of the British National Corpus (for brevity, referred to here as the ''Conversational Corpus"). This is a subcorpus of c. 4.5 million words, in which speakers and respondents (see I below) are identified by such factors as gender, age, social group, and geographical region. Using a corpus analysis tool developed at Lancaster, we undertake a comparison of the vocabulary of speakers, highlighting those differences which are marked by a very high X2 value of difference between different sectors of the corpus according to gender, age, and social group. A fourth variable, that of geographical region of the United Kingdom, is not investigated in this article, although it remains a promising subject for future research. (As background we also briefly examine differences between spoken and written material in the British National Corpus [BNC].) This study is illustrative of the potentiality of the Conversational Corpus for future corpus-based research on social differentiation in the use of language. There are evident limitations, including (a) the reliance on vocabulary frequency lists and (b) the simplicity of the transcription system employed for the spoken part of the BNC The conclusion of the article considers future advances in the research paradigm illustrated here.

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