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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... Somali nation 5 Fission along the moiety division and reconstitution of moiety systems in Boran and Tana Orma ethnogenesis 6 Age - set lines and the faħán cycles in the Rendille system 7 The teeria age - set line in the time sequence 8 ...
... Somali languages , and his knowledge of neighbouring languages and cultures . Surely it is on such in - depth studies , rather than on short research visits , that African studies must depend if they are to have an intellectual future ...
... Somali , Boran and Rendille texts . Frau Gertraud Specht in Bayreuth did vast amounts of typing - earlier versions of the manuscript were much longer than the present work - and Frau Liisa Kurz in Bielefeld finished the remainder after ...
... Somali dialect . Ethnically , quite clearly , they are not Somali because they do not perceive themselves as such , and because they are not Muslims – Islam is one of the main components of Somali identity . The belief system of the ...
... Somali , they are Muslims . They number 22,006 . Some of them are Oromo monolinguals , while others are bilingual , and yet others , who stem from later immigrants , speak only Somali . The population of the Garre in Kenya is 83,083 ...
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 |