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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... girl marries a Somali , she will have to exchange one standard of cleanliness , decency and beauty and all the habits associated with it for another standard and a different set of habits . She will have to abandon fat and red ochre for ...
... girls of one age set out of three by one fourteen - year cycle , one does not ( Schlee 1979 : 147 ) . One of the subclans avoids eating game , the others do not . This list of variations could be expanded . A clan is composed of between ...
... girl of his own clan , Rengumo . Later this marriage was sanctioned by the introduction of new exogamy rules . According to another tradition an old man , Eisimkoro , was left behind by his migrating settlement . A warrior of Rengumo ...
... girls of the opposite moiety led to a shortage of brides , it was even allowed that DaChi of all subclans of Saale marry each other and – even further – that Chi , i.e. members of Saale , marry DaChi of all subclans of Saale but their ...
... girl should marry a non - Sakuye . These measures gradually led to a normalisation of the population pyramid . The change among the southern Sakuye was less radical and less permanent : all Sakuye were impoverished after the emergency ...
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 Pastoralism in Northern Kenya Günther Schlee Limited preview - 1989 |