Suffering Grass: Subsistence and Society of Waso Borana

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

Contents

TABLE OF CONTENTS 433 54
11
Three with sweet milk
30
The rhythm of pastoral life
56
Livestock and labour
68
From herding to husbandry the road to elderhood
88
Mothers and milkmanagers
113
Kin and camp
137
Resources and redistribution
167
STRATIFICATION THROUGH INTEGRATION
189
The new economy of Waso
210
Patterns of modern leadership
231
Town life
245
Conclusion
254
In the field
266
Bibliography
273
Index
281

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Bibliographic information

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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