Gisu (English spelling)

Japanese: ギス族 - ギスぞく（英語表記）Gisu; Gishu

They are a Bantu-speaking agricultural people living on the western slope of Mount Elgon, northeast of Lake Victoria, near the border with Uganda and Kenya. They cultivate millet, sorghum, and plantain bananas. Their population is estimated at over one million. Although their area is small, their population density is quite high, and land shortages have long been a serious problem. Descent and inheritance are traced through the patrilineage, and they have a segmented lineage system in which relationships between local groups are expressed in the language of their descent. Traditionally, they have not had a centralized political form, and leaders are heads of small, non-hereditary descent groups. They are known for their complex initiation rites for men.

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Japanese:

ビクトリア湖の北東，ウガンダとケニアとの国境付近にあるエルゴン山の西斜面に居住するバンツー語系農耕民で，雑穀類，ソーガム，プランテンバナナを栽培する。人口は 100万をこえると推定される。小地域ではあるが人口密度はかなり高く，土地不足は古くから深刻な問題であった。出自や相続は父系をたどり，地域集団同士の関係が出自の特有の言語で表現される分節的リニージ体系をもつ。伝統的に中央集権化された政治形態をもたず，世襲ではない小出自集団の長が指導者であった。複雑な男子のイニシエーション儀礼が有名。

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