Suffering Grass: Subsistence and Society of Waso Borana

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Department of Social Anthropology, University of Stockholm, 1979 - 287 pages

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Three with sweet milk
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abba administration adult affinal African agnates animals anuna Asmarom Baxter Boran area Boran society Borana Gutu bridewealth brother calves camels camp capital cattle clan clansmen colonial context corral Council cows Dalleo daughters drought dry season East Africa ecological economic elders Ethiopia father female formal Gabbra gada system Garba Tula gifts girl grazing halaal handura herd herdowners Hjort homestead household husband important Isiolo District Isiolo Town jallaba Karayu Kinna Kotele labour less lineage livestock living loans mainly maize manyattas marriage married migration milking rights miraa moiety mother Muslim Nairobi Nomadic northern Kenya Oromo particular pastoral pastoral society pastoralists PC NFD political production redistribution relation Rendille Sabbu Sakuye Samburu senior shamba shifta shifta war small stock social sodda Somali structure Swahili tion trade traditional unit Waso Waso Borana Wata wealth wife wives woman women young

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TitleSuffering Grass: Subsistence and Society of Waso Borana
Issue 8 of Stockholm studies in social anthropology, ISSN 0347-0830
AuthorGudrun Dahl
PublisherDepartment of Social Anthropology, University of Stockholm, 1979
Original fromthe University of California
Digitized15 May 2008
ISBN9185284149, 9789185284146
Length287 pages
  
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