Identities on the Move: Clanship and Pastoralism in Northern KenyaClan relationships exceed the bounds of the pastoral Rendille, Gabbra, Sakuya, & Somali ethnic groups These affiliations are useful for political & herding needs. This book gives cultural & linguistic information on each of the above tribal groups. |
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Contents
Alternative forms of inclusion of clans into major units | 2 |
Clan phratry tribe ethnic group as defined by empirical | 8 |
Sakuye clan list | 21 |
The settlement order of the Sakuye at the site of the hayyu and jaldab inaugurations | 23 |
The position of the Isaaq Degodia Garre Dulbaħante and Ajuran in the genealogy of the Somali nation | 28 |
The historical frame | 30 |
Fission along the moiety division and reconstitution of moiety systems in Boran and Tana Orma ethnogenesis | 36 |
a comparative approach to history | 54 |
Migrations and presentday distribution of Odoola | 163 |
Some genealogical relationships within Usmalo | 165 |
The small fur earclipping | 174 |
The wide fur earclipping | 175 |
Frame of a standard Rendille house | 179 |
Kóbola Gār Gabbra including Borqosho and MassaElémo Gabbra Galbo and Rendille Gaaldeilan | 193 |
Genealogy of a part of the Elémo subclan showing circumcision years and approximate timedepth of this subclan among the Rendille | 199 |
Spatial arrangements around the hill Kallés on the occasion of Garawahles sacrifice | 202 |
Ageset lines and the faħán cycles in the Rendille system | 75 |
The teeria ageset line in the time sequence | 77 |
The Rendille ideal marriage with a bride of ones FaFaMos clan | 78 |
The cyclical recurrence of marriage constellations in a Rendille descent line | 79 |
Agesets per generation in the various systems | 80 |
The Gabbra Miigo generationset system | 83 |
The Sharbana ageset system | 84 |
The mbao game | 124 |
Alif Lossa of Galbo | 131 |
The interethnic clan clusters | 145 |
Orientation of sacrificial animals | 150 |
Helmale gólole | 204 |
The togoog brand of Matarbá | 209 |
Alternative explications of the Aquiliyy origin of Ajuran | 214 |
Genealogical ideas of some Kenya Ajuran | 227 |
The Gaabanayó brand and the Galleole alif Lossa brand | 229 |
Genealogical relationships between the ancestors of Quchabúr | 230 |
The Tubcha brand and its modifications by diacritical marks | 232 |
Conclusion | 234 |
The emergence of interethnic clan relationships | 235 |
Rendille clans 1213 | 253 |
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Common terms and phrases
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Identities on the Move: Clanship and Pastoralism in Northern Kenya Volume 5 of Cultural Politics International African Institute Seminar Studies Issue 5 of International African library, ISSN 0951-1377 |
| Author | Günther Schlee |
| Contributor | International African Institute |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Manchester University Press, 1989 |
| ISBN | 0719030102, 9780719030109 |
| Length | 278 pages |
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