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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... similar names , shared stock and property marks , similar ritual practices and avoidances , bodies of shared knowledge and rules of exogamy . These markers pre - date the formation of present ethnic groups . In order to reconstruct clan ...
... similar size but different in nature . Why then are anthropological studies of poly - ethnic districts , international networks , trans - ethnic links , etc. so comparatively rare , while studies of ethnically and linguistically ...
... similar to the Gabbra , have been reduced to peri - urban pauperism because of the shifta war of the sixties . ( They have been regarded by the separatist Somali as Boran , i.e. pro - Kenyan , and have been raided accordingly , while ...
... speak only Somali . The population of the Garre in Kenya is 83,083 . They mainly live in the districts of Wajir and Mandera . Many Garre also live in Ethiopia and 7 Somalia . Their linguistic situation is similar to that 4 INTRODUCTION.
... similar to that of the Ajuran . Their wide area of dispersal comprises both bovine and camel pastures . Like some of the Degodia Somali , who are numerous in Kenya ( 93,035 ) , some Ajuran are traders in the areas of other pastoralists ...
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 |