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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... languages and , indeed , may well be hostile . In order to understand these links Professor Schlee was led to ... language cannot be one . The markers are similar names , shared stock and property marks , similar ritual practices ...
... 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 . The ...
... language and necessitate much travelling ) , some of the established patterns of social anthropology seem to generate ' units ' and ' subunits ' which reinforce the tradition of the mono - ethnic monograph . ? A theoretical concept ...
... language which , if it were spoken in Somalia , could have been classified as a Somali dialect . Ethnically , quite clearly , they are not Somali because they do not perceive themselves as such , and because they are not Muslims – Islam ...
... language speakers 100 Km Map 1 Distribution of ethnic groups Source : Schlee 1985b . impulses they gave to the ethnogenetic processes of others . The main body of the Boran live in Ethiopia . In Kenya they number 68,894 : a large group ...
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 |