Identities on the Move: Clanship and Pastoralism in Northern KenyaClan relationships exceed the bounds of the pastoral Rendille, Gabbra, Sakuya, & Somali ethnic groups These affiliations are useful for political & herding needs. This book gives cultural & linguistic information on each of the above tribal groups. |
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Page 63
What they fear about him : his hand is bad , they say , his birthday is bad , they
say . They call him an unpropitious man . Before , when elders and big people of
prayers and so were in the country , they do something about it . They tie his
hands ...
What they fear about him : his hand is bad , they say , his birthday is bad , they
say . They call him an unpropitious man . Before , when elders and big people of
prayers and so were in the country , they do something about it . They tie his
hands ...
Page 98
We took each other's hand ( hand , gave , reciprocal ) and ended up in their
hands . When ( after the long trek , centuries later , the Garre ) came back , we
joined again our people , our Islam . ( Miigo ) THE TRICKS OF SHEIKH BULE
HUSSEIN ...
We took each other's hand ( hand , gave , reciprocal ) and ended up in their
hands . When ( after the long trek , centuries later , the Garre ) came back , we
joined again our people , our Islam . ( Miigo ) THE TRICKS OF SHEIKH BULE
HUSSEIN ...
Page 264
The hand ( in the narrow sense ) had come out , but the ' hand ' ( in the wider
sense ) remained in the birth channel until the finger ring was put on . 161 Mu'
allim Muhammad , Waqle , Koiya , 18 May 1984 . 162 Mohammed ' Ummar
Hussein ...
The hand ( in the narrow sense ) had come out , but the ' hand ' ( in the wider
sense ) remained in the birth channel until the finger ring was put on . 161 Mu'
allim Muhammad , Waqle , Koiya , 18 May 1984 . 162 Mohammed ' Ummar
Hussein ...
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Contents
Alternative forms of inclusion of clans into major units | 2 |
Sakuye clan list | 21 |
The settlement order of the Sakuye at the site of the hayyu and jaldab inaugurations | 23 |
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Common terms and phrases
According age set age-set Ajuran Alganna almodo ancestors animals asked became become believed belong Boran brand British brothers called camels cattle ceremony chapter claim clan common course culture custom cycle described Diagram discussed duub east elders established ethnic fact father gaal Gaalorra Gabbra Galbo Garre girl give given groups hand herd identity important Islam joined Kenya killed language later lineage lived lost marked marriage married means migration Miigo milk moiety months moved Muslim northern Odoola origin Oromo phratry present qallu recent refer relationship Rendille ritual rules Saale Sakuye Samburu Schlee seen senior separated settlement shared side similar social society Somali sons sorio split stayed subclan traditions tribe woman women
Bibliographic information
| Title | Identities on the Move: Clanship and Pastoralism in Northern Kenya Volume 5 of Cultural Politics International African Institute Seminar Studies Issue 5 of International African library, ISSN 0951-1377 |
| Author | Günther Schlee |
| Contributor | International African Institute |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Manchester University Press for the International African Institute, 1989 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 8 Oct 2008 |
| ISBN | 0719030102, 9780719030109 |
| Length | 278 pages |
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