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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... ritual and social relationships across ethnic boundaries and in hard times , such as the recent droughts , make use of them for assistance . Those relationships are rooted in shared clanship and are quite distinct from stock contracts ...
... rituals , which involve a complicated division of ritual labour and require co - operation of the nine clans . The tribe becomes visible here as a corporate whole . But even here there are exceptions : the Gooborre , a subclan of the ...
... ritual , sympathetic - imitative , magical - analogous ) and biological forms of transmission of personality traits are not seen as alternatives but as complementary , as an interwoven , mutually reinforcing whole . Examples of subclan ...
... ritual labour it is generally the iibire who do something and the wakhkamur to whom something is done . Two wakhkamur , for example , are transformed into fools by public magical rituals as a sacrifice for their age set ; on other ...
... ritual calendar which requires the Gabbra phratries to pass certain age - set rituals at given times in a given order . This needs coordination , i.e. co - operation . The five phratries or ' tribes ' , gos , clearly appear as corporate ...
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 |