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 26
... fighting as they are in Somali- land , there is little need of witchcraft . In a later chapter I argue that this is to some extent the case , for where sorcery or witch- craft occur it is usually between people who , for one reason or ...
... fighting as they are in Somali- land , there is little need of witchcraft . In a later chapter I argue that this is to some extent the case , for where sorcery or witch- craft occur it is usually between people who , for one reason or ...
Page 232
... fighting and to administrative intervention . XIII A Somali adage states that ' to dispute the judgement of a court is to dispute with God ' ( gardiid waa Allaah diid ) and again , it is said that ' the man who breaks customary rulings ...
... fighting and to administrative intervention . XIII A Somali adage states that ' to dispute the judgement of a court is to dispute with God ' ( gardiid waa Allaah diid ) and again , it is said that ' the man who breaks customary rulings ...
Page 244
... fighting unit within which it was often essential to compose differences and stifle enmity . Thus dia - paying groups of different clans are more ready to seek retaliation than closely linked lineages , even when the latter are in keen ...
... fighting unit within which it was often essential to compose differences and stifle enmity . Thus dia - paying groups of different clans are more ready to seek retaliation than closely linked lineages , even when the latter are in keen ...
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