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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... marriage with a bride of one's FaFaMo's clan 10 The cyclical recurrence of marriage constellations in a Rendille descent line 11 Age - sets per generation in the various systems 12 The Gabbra Miigo generation - set system 13 The ...
... marriage partners or address relatives so different , that even for closely related groups we cannot assume beforehand ... married into the clan are addressed and treated as Mo , MoSi = FaBrWi , or in one's own generation Wi and BrWi ...
... marriage partners have had the same lover . Marriage of such biological half - siblings would not be considered incestuous . It is through the subclan that a given combination of traits is inherited and passed on , rather than through ...
... marriage of the girls of one age set out of three by one fourteen - year cycle , one does not ( Schlee 1979 : 147 ) ... marry each other . Ongom means ' side of the neck ' , batarr ' thigh ' , i.e. RENDILLE CLAN STRUCTURE 11.
... 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 saved him and helped him to the new location ...
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 |