This field study was done among the Gusii, a Bantu-speaking group numbering about half a million in the highlands of south-western Kenya. The invest-gator spent 16 months (September 1966- January 1968) doing field work. The social unit chosen for study was "Nyansongo," the same group of neighboring families which the LeVines chose as their primary social unit in 1956. A group of contiguous neighboring families who were members of a large work group in 1956 is the community which the LeVines chose to call Nyansongo (LeVine and LeVine, 1966:5). By and large, such communities are unnamed in Gusiiland. One end of Nyansongo is located 8 miles from Kisii Township, the district headquarters, and the other is a quarter of a mile from a market and a chief's camp. Now composed of 38 homesteads, Nyansongo lies on the slopes of the main road to Kericho. Except for one portion on the north-east end of the community, it is only "one homestead deep" on either side of the road and is a mile and a quarter long. In addition to the data collected for this particular study, basic data were systematically collected on the entire com-munity of Nyansongo. These data are a part of an ongoing file of panel communities of the Child Development Research Unit. These data were collected during a series of informal interviews with all the adults and many of the adolescent children of Nyansongo. They include census and genealogies, cross-referenced to maps, residence histories, initiation year, marriage histories, job histories, women's fertility histories, educational histories including baptism school, religious affiliations, church atten-dance, distance of in-marrying and out-marrying females from husband's home at the time of marriage, visiting patterns of matrilineally related kin, crop surveys, animals owned, land-holding, land-lending and -borrowing, estimates of income from cash crops, patterns of procuring water and firewood, marketing patterns, sleeping and eating arrangements, daily routines of people of different sex and age groups, and ethnosociological categories.
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机译：这项实地研究是在说古斯语的古西人中进行的，古西语族是肯尼亚西南部的一个高地，约有一百万人。投资人花了16个月（1966年9月至1968年1月）进行现场工作。被选为研究对象的社会单位是“ Nyansongo”，这是LeVines在1956年选择其主要社会单位的同一家庭。在1956年，他们是一个大工作组的成员，这些连续的相邻家庭是一个社区。 LeVines选择给Nyansongo打电话（LeVine and LeVine，1966：5）。总的来说，这类社区在古西兰岛没有名字。 Nyansongo的一端距离地区总部Kisii Township 8英里，另一端距离市场和酋长营地四分之一英里。 Nyansongo现在由38个宅基地组成，位于通往Kericho的主要道路的斜坡上。除了社区东北端的一部分外，它在道路的两侧只有“一个宅基地深”，长一英里又四分之一长。除了为该特定研究收集的数据外，还系统地收集了Nyansongo整个社区的基本数据。这些数据是儿童发展研究小组专家小组正在进行的文件的一部分。这些数据是在对Nyansongo的所有成人和许多青少年儿童进行的一系列非正式采访中收集的。它们包括人口普查和家谱，地图的交叉引用，居住史，入学年份，婚姻史，工作史，妇女生育史，教育史，包括洗礼学校，宗教信仰，教会出勤，出嫁距离在结婚时从丈夫的家中嫁给女性，母系亲戚的探望方式，作物调查，拥有的动物，土地持有，土地出借和借入，经济作物的收入估算，水和木柴的采购方式，销售模式，睡眠和饮食安排，不同性别和年龄段的人的日常活动以及种族社会学类别。
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