Suffering Grass: Subsistence and Society of Waso BoranaDepartment of Social Anthropology, University of Stockholm, 1979 - 287 pages |
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abba administration adult affinal agnates agricultural animals anuna Asmarom Baxter Boran area Boran community Boran society Borana Gutu bridewealth brothers calves camels camp capital cattle clan clansmen colonial context corral Council cows Dahl daughters drought dry season Dyson-Hudson East Africa ecological economic elders Ethiopia father female formal Gabbra Garba Tula gifts grazing halaal handura herd herdowners herdsmen Hjort homestead husband important irrigation Isiolo District Isiolo Town jallaba Karayu Kinna Kotele labour less lineage livestock living maize manyattas marriage married migration miraa moiety mother Muslim Nairobi Nomadic northern Kenya Oromo particular pastoral pastoral society pastoralists PC NFD political production redistribution relations role Sabbu Sakuye Samburu schemes shamba shifta shifta war small stock social sodda Somali structure subsistence Swahili trade traditional unit University Press Waso Waso Borana Wata wealthy wife wives woman women young