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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... societies is that of the segmentary lineage system . Such systems necessarily comprise hierarchical taxonomies . A tribe is subdivided into major lineages , then into minor and finally into minimal lineages , or into phratries , clans ...
... societies studied in exactly the same sense , that is , to find an interculturally valid definition . For example , what in Rendille we call a ' clan ' has – with two exceptions - exogamy as a main feature and this can be used as a ...
... societies in different senses . To reduce misunderstandings I start with a short description of the social structure of each society . RENDILLE CLAN STRUCTURE Rendille ' in its widest sense denotes all those who speak Rendille . These ...
... society . A further subclan - specific feature is propitiousness , munya , or in its negative form , as a stigma , unpropitiousness , bidir . That a subclan is bidir can mean that it is believed that children begotten by men of such a ...
... society . They do not speak first in a meeting ; on the contrary , they have the last word . Although a decision may be reached by a communal discussion , it is only the hayyu who by his verdict finalises it . The symbols of power which ...
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 |