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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... heer . This word usually translated ' custom ' has more specific connotations.1 Its closest equivalents in English are compact , contract , agreement or treaty in a bilateral sense . Thus several men or parties are said to be of the same ...
... heer . This word usually translated ' custom ' has more specific connotations.1 Its closest equivalents in English are compact , contract , agreement or treaty in a bilateral sense . Thus several men or parties are said to be of the same ...
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... heer agreements binding groups relate principally to collective defence and secur- ity and to political cohesion in general . By extension , heer means customary procedure founded upon contractual agreement . In its widest sense , as ...
... heer agreements binding groups relate principally to collective defence and secur- ity and to political cohesion in general . By extension , heer means customary procedure founded upon contractual agreement . In its widest sense , as ...
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... ( heer dulnimo ) not based on specific contracts , is distinguished from the formal codes ( heer do'nimo ) which regulate the affairs of dia - paying groups . As new orbits of agnation are recognized in different situations with the ...
... ( heer dulnimo ) not based on specific contracts , is distinguished from the formal codes ( heer do'nimo ) which regulate the affairs of dia - paying groups . As new orbits of agnation are recognized in different situations with the ...
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