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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... Age - set lines and the faħán cycles in the Rendille system 7 The teeria age - set line in the time sequence 8 The teeria age - set line in relation to adjacent linking 9 The Rendille ideal marriage with a bride of one's FaFaMo's clan ...
... age - set names 8 A comparison of Gabbra Miigo and Rendille age - set names 9 Gabbra Malbe age - set chronology FOREWORD This study brings together , in an imaginative and. 12-13 18-20 24 25 64 65 76 85 86-7 ti balladan ) Gaalmagal ...
... age set of the husband ( Hu ) , if genealogically junior to Hu , are counted as younger HuBrs and are thus ... group of accepted potential begetters of children is larger than the subclan . The subclan is the largest socially relevant ...
... age - set offices and public roles . The different subclans of the Gaaldeilan , as an example , have different house forms ( Schlee 1979 : 251f . ) . Four of them postpone the marriage of the girls of one age set out of three by one ...
... age - set cycles the four parts thus defined have now been marrying the DaChi of each other . Further , these DaChi are allowed to intermarry , although it is normally forbidden to marry someone whose mother stems from the same clan as ...
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 |