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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... social and political formations , while others , especially those concerned with agricultural developments , have concentrated on analyses of social and productive relationships in and between homesteads which have decision - making ...
Clanship and Pastorialism in Northern Kenya Günther Schlee. theorists . This particular blend of social anthropology , history , comparative linguistics and ethnology has , I think , been immensely productive . Certainly my own ...
... social scene . He was permanently based in Kenya whereas I , because of various commitments , had to spend about half the last decade in Germany . That he now has gone back to Australia is a loss to many people . My wife Isir went ...
... social and cultural anthropologists , is exempt from such processes of remoulding . In fact , the recent and artificial nature of some ethnic identities – a number of which have apparently only formed in response to colonial rule – has ...
... social organisation are so numerous , the rules by which people choose marriage partners or address relatives so different , that even for closely related groups we cannot assume beforehand that social units of the same scale have ...
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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