Identities on the Move: Clanship and Pastorialism in Northern KenyaRoutledge, 2018 M09 3 - 290 pages Originally published in 1989, this book examines how the inter-ethnic relationships of the clans of the pastoral Rendille, Gabbra, Sakuye and some Somalis of northern Kenya and southern Ethiopia came about. It also examines the uses to which these inter-ethnic relationships are put: for example in managing herds. Oral history is combined with cultural comparison and the analysis of social structure. Blending synchronic and diachronic perspectives, the book synthesises historical ethnology in the Continental tradition with social anthropology. Historically it overturns some established ideas about how the Horn of Africa was settled. Anthropologically it shows how relations may exceed the bounds of the ethnic group as the conventional unit of study. |
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... Gabbra ) including Borqosho and Massa / Elémo ( Gabbra Galbo and Rendille Gaaldeilan ) 25 Genealogy of a part of the Elémo subclan showing circumcision years and approximate time - depth of this subclan among the Rendille 26 Spatial ...
... Gabbra and the Boran ( see Schlee , 1979 , who focuses on Rendille beliefs ) . The northern neighbours of the Rendille are the Gabbra who extend to and beyond the Ethiopian border in an area which is even drier and harsher than ...
... Gabbra and the Sakuye ( e.g. Torry 1973 and cursorily Haberland 1963 : 141ff . ) often describe these groups as subunits of the Boran or as being of Boran origin - but wrongly , as we shall see . The British colonial administration ...
... Gabbra Miigo ) soon accepted Boran Oromo hegemony , others ( the Gabbra Malbe and the Garre ) only after a number of migrations which were aimed at removing them from the Boran sphere but which in the end led some of them back into it ...
... GABBRA CLAN STRUCTURE The Gabbra consist of five phratries - Gār , Galbo , Sharbana , Odoola and Alganna – which are the political and ritual foci of Gabbra social organisation . Such is the relative self - sufficiency of the phratries ...
Contents
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Chapter 3 The historical frame | 30 |
a comparative approach to history | 54 |
Chapter 5 The interethnic clan clusters | 145 |
Chapter 6 Conclusion | 234 |
Interviews and their locations | 237 |
Notes | 240 |
Bibliography | 266 |
Index | 275 |
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Identities on the Move: Clanship and Pastorialism in Northern Kenya Günther Schlee Limited preview - 2018 |
Identities on the Move: Clanship and Pastoralism in Northern Kenya Günther Schlee Limited preview - 1989 |