Editing Kipsigis people (section)

==== Social organization ====
The Kipsigis tribe is a patriarchal society that was organized in terms of geo-political groupings, clan systems, age sets and military ranks.

===== Genealogical organisation (Ortiinweek) =====
The Kipsigis organize themselves into a series of groupings based on shared kinship analogous to [[clan]]s. A clan is brought about by a shared ancestor with a context of adoption as a way of naturalization into the clan, usually from [[Maasai people|Maasai]]/[[Kisii people|Gusii]]/[[Luo people|Luo]] as Kipsigis cannot adopt from within Kalenjin. The patriarchal ancestors, notably the patriarch Kakipoch, immigrated the Nandi-Kipsigis population to Uasin Ngishu plains and Kerio Valley. Formulation of the clan system is thought to have come about due to assimilation of other communities and population growth as a system of preventing [[pedigree collapse]] and in-breeding as the main purpose of clans was to prevent marriage within the same clan (marriages being mainly heterosexual but with a lesbian marriage in context). Clans also projected various professionalism and probably adopted identities where for instance, certain clans were exclusively priests, others were exclusively smiths, others exclusively hunters and gathers while others had other particular peculiarities.

===== Generations =====
The Kipsigis observe a cyclical generation setting system. The system seems to have been arrogated plausibly from the Bantu Kikuyu people. The system completes a full rotation in between about a hundred and a hundred and twenty years. The set is composed of generations that extend between 15 and 20 years. The system was used to account for historical events and demographic management.
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!Set
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!Years
!Western equivalent
!Notes
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| rowspan="3" |Nyongi
|1st cycle
|1783 to 1801 (19 years)
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|Plausible adoption era of circumcision and initiation
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|2nd cycle
|1905 to 1920 (16 yrs)
|Interbellum Generation/The Greatest Generation
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|3rd cycle
|2019 onwards
|Gen Alpha
|Social Network generation
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| rowspan="2" |Maina
|1st cycle
|1802 to 1819 (18 yrs)
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|-
|2nd cycle
|1921 to 1936 (16 yrs)
|Silent Generation
|[[King's African Rifles]] and world war era generation
|-
| rowspan="2" |Chumo
|1st cycle
|1820 to 1836 (17 yrs) 
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|-
|2nd cycle
|1937 to 1951 (15 yrs)
|Silent Generation/Baby Boomer Generation
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|-
| rowspan="2" |Sawe
|1st cycle
|1837 to 1853 (17 yrs)
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|Remembered for the failed war of Ng'oino
|-
|2nd cycle
|1952 to 1966 (15 yrs)
|Baby Boomer Generation 
|Post war and independence era
|-
| rowspan="2" |Kerongoro
|1st cycle
|1854 to 1870 (17 yrs)
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|-
|2nd cycle
|1967 to 1981 (15 yrs)
|Generation X /Xennials
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|-
| rowspan="2" |Kaplelach
|1st cycle
|1871 to 1887 (17 yrs)
|The Lost Generation
|Remembered for the failed war of Mogori
|-
|2nd cycle
|1982 to 1999 (18 yrs)
|Xennials/ Millennials
|[[Daniel arap Moi|Daniel Moi]]'s free primary education era
|-
| rowspan="2" |Kipnyige
|1st cycle
|1888 to 1904 (17 yrs)
|Interbellum Generation
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|-
|2nd cycle
|2000 to 2018 (19 yrs)
|Generation Z
|Technology and civil liberties generation
|}