A Pastoral Democracy: A Study of Pastoralism and Politics Among the Northern Somali of the Horn of AfricaAfricana Publishing Company for the International African Institute, 1982 - 320 pages |
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Page 129
... ancestor which may be unknown to many and is often far from the area in which the nomadic hamlets and camel - camps are gathered . Thus the shrines of ancestors do not necessarily localize groups and the ancestor cult is practised in ...
... ancestor which may be unknown to many and is often far from the area in which the nomadic hamlets and camel - camps are gathered . Thus the shrines of ancestors do not necessarily localize groups and the ancestor cult is practised in ...
Page 134
... ancestor . The word reer prefixed to an ancestor indicates all his descendants . And this is the formula most generally used in the designation of lineages by reference to their eponymous founders . Since politics are in principle a ...
... ancestor . The word reer prefixed to an ancestor indicates all his descendants . And this is the formula most generally used in the designation of lineages by reference to their eponymous founders . Since politics are in principle a ...
Page 147
... ancestor , many people only remember those ancestors who are politically significant as founders of structur- ally important extant lineages . Others are forgotten and may only be dimly recalled by clan elders and Sultans well versed in ...
... ancestor , many people only remember those ancestors who are politically significant as founders of structur- ally important extant lineages . Others are forgotten and may only be dimly recalled by clan elders and Sultans well versed in ...
Contents
Ecology and Clan | 31 |
Pastoralism and the Structure of Grazing Encampments | 56 |
Settlement and Cultivation | 90 |
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Aadan Abokor Administration affinal Africa agnatic Aḥmad Akisho amongst ancestor Arabic Barkad blood-wealth British Protectorate British Somaliland Burao camel-camps camels clan clan-family clanship common compensation contract cultivation Daarood descent dia-paying group Digil Digil and Rahanwiin disputes District dry seasons Dulbahante elders Erigavo Ethiopia Faaraḥ fighting Gadabuursi Galla Garaad genealogy Geri Government grazing Habar Awal Habar Tol Ja'lo Habar Yuunis Hagar hamlets Hargeisa Haud Hawiye heer herds Isaaq Islam Jaama Jibriil Abokor jiffo kinship kinsmen Kooshin Las Anod lineage system live livestock Maḥammad Maḥamuud Majeerteen marriage married ment Mogadishu movement Muslim nomadic hamlets northern Somali northern Somaliland party pastoral pastoralists paying group political units primary lineage primary lineage-group Reer region relations religious Sa'ad Muuse segments settlement Shariah sheep and goats Sheikh social solidarity Somali political Somali Youth League southern Somalia structure Sultan tariiqa tion towns traditional treaty Ugaas uterine wadaads Zeila