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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... tradition of the mono - ethnic monograph . ? A theoretical concept widely used in monographical studies of African – and later also Melanesian – societies is that of the segmentary lineage system . Such systems necessarily comprise ...
... tradition " and the sociological variant as typical of Britain . Anthropology thus divided into two disciplines which were pursued in different places by different people . What I want to demonstrate is that it is not the diachronic nor ...
... 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 of the settlement . Eisimkoro then called his co - elders of Rengumo to the naabo , the ...
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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 |