In the table below are some of the Kipchumba Foundation Open Sources Program (OSP) socio-cultural themes and cases that enrich The Encyclopedia.
No./ Week | Theme/ Case | Remarks |
1 | Religion 1: Death | |
2 | Religion 2: Interpretation of dreams and omens | |
3 | Religion 3: Taboos and superstitions | |
4 | Religion 4: Origin myths and legends | |
5 | Marriage 1: Marriage as an institution and related rituals | |
6 | Marriage 2: Birth, naming and related rituals | |
7 | Marriage 3: Incest, sex, sexuality and sexual education | |
8 | Marriage 4: Social organization, laws, roles and relations | |
9 | Medicine 1: Ailments and symptoms | |
10 | Medicine 2: Herbs and drugs | |
11 | Medicine 3: Surgery | |
12 | Medicine 4: Physicians | |
13 | Medicine 5: Diagnostic and therapeutic processes and services | |
14 | Medicine 6: Midwifery | |
15 | Medicine 7: Health education | |
16 | Technology 1: Aspects, architectural designs, inventors, technologists, and indigenous innovations | |
17 | Technology 2: Built technology | |
18 | Technology 3: Weaponry | |
19 | Technology 4: Household goods | |
20 | Technology 5: Ornaments | |
21 | Commerce 1: Goods and services | |
22 | Commerce 2: Prices, exchanges and accounting | |
23 | Commerce 3: Weights and measures | |
24 | Commerce 4: Forms of labour and labour relations | |
25 | Commerce 5: Property allocation, ownership and transfer system | |
26 | Commerce 6: Industrialization and indigenous industries | |
27 | Commerce 7: Disputes and resolutions | |
28 | Circumcision 1: Male circumcision procedures | |
29 | Circumcision 2: Male circumcision curriculum | |
30 | Circumcision 3: Female circumcision procedures, if any | |
31 | Circumcision 4: Female circumcision curriculum, if any | |
32 | Oral traditions 1: Oral narratives | |
33 | Oral traditions 2: Oral poetry and epics | |
34 | Oral traditions 3: Proverbs and sayings | |
35 | Oral traditions 4: Jokes, tongue twisters, epigrams and puns | |
36 | Oral traditions 5: Riddles | |
37 | Language 1: Writing system/ orthography | |
38 | Language 2: Vowels | |
39 | Language 3: Consonants | |
40 | Language 4: Verbs | |
41 | Language 5: Adjectives | |
42 | Language 6: Nouns | |
43 | Language 7: Inflectionals (adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, particles, exclamations, etc.) | |
44 | Language 8: Pronunciation and phonological system | |
45 | Language 9: Sentences, tenses and time | |
46 | Geography 1: Geology and mineralogy (e.g. rocks, earth quakes and tsunami, rare minerals) | |
47 | Geography 2: Topography and drainage | |
48 | Geography 3: Weather and climate | |
49 | Geography 4: Vegetation and forestry | |
50 | Agriculture 1: Animal husbandry | |
51 | Agriculture 2: Crop husbandry | |
52 | Agriculture 3: Other agricultural activities | |
53 | Agriculture 4: Systems of cultivation and land tenure | |
54 | Agriculture 5: Storage and produce preservation | |
57 | Education 1: Childhood and adulthood education | |
58 | Education 2: Womanhood and elderhood education | |
59 | Education 3: General education; foreign education practices, not necessarily modern education practices | |
60 | Demography 1: Population size, growth, fertility, age/ sex composition over time | |
61 | Demography 2: Population distribution and density, and ethnic structure over time | |
62 | Demography 3: Migration | |
63 | Politics 1: Structure and process of political organization | |
64 | Politics 2: Age grading regime, genealogies and roles | |
65 | Politics 3: Community leadership | |
66 | Politics 4: Political administration, successes and challenges | |
67 | Politics 5: Tribal conflicts and military affairs e.g. conducting wars | |
68 | Politics 6: Legal/ judicial system | |
69 | Music 1: Songs and dances, and musicians | |
70 | Music 2: Role and importance of music, rhythms | |
71 | Music 3: Musical instruments | |
72 | Music 4: Musical education, terminology and practices | |
73 | Communication 1: Means of transport and systems | |
74 | Communication 2: Modalities of face to face communication | |
75 | Communication 3: Communication dynamics/ changes over time | |
76 | Meals 1: Eating habits and meal courses | |
77 | Meals 2: Ways of preparing/ cooking food, ingredients | |
78 | Meals 3: Food preservation |