Suffering Grass: Subsistence and Society of Waso BoranaDepartment of Social Anthropology, University of Stockholm, 1979 - 287 pages |
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Page 98
... brothers and after his father's death he acts in his father's place towards them . The inherited stock are formally his , but he has some duties towards his younger brothers whom he should supply with stock if their allotted herds are ...
... brothers and after his father's death he acts in his father's place towards them . The inherited stock are formally his , but he has some duties towards his younger brothers whom he should supply with stock if their allotted herds are ...
Page 149
... brothers should keep their patrimony intact after their father's death and continue to live together as an undivided ... brothers ' herds . If the brothers own only cattle and small stock , which is the normal case today among the ...
... brothers should keep their patrimony intact after their father's death and continue to live together as an undivided ... brothers ' herds . If the brothers own only cattle and small stock , which is the normal case today among the ...
Page 215
... brothers , the cattle management may be reserved for the eldest brother , and younger brothers are , it seems , " squeezed out " of pastoralism . The traditional redistributive system of the clan also favours herdowners who are senior ...
... brothers , the cattle management may be reserved for the eldest brother , and younger brothers are , it seems , " squeezed out " of pastoralism . The traditional redistributive system of the clan also favours herdowners who are senior ...
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TABLE OF CONTENTS 433 54 | 11 |
Three with sweet milk | 28 |
The rhythm of pastoral life | 56 |
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abba administration adult affinal African agnates allocation animals anuna Asmarom Baxter Boran area Boran society Borana Gutu bridewealth brother calves camels camp capital cattle chapter clan clansmen colonial context corral Council cows Dalleo daughters drought dry season economic elders Ethiopia father female formal Gabbra gada system Garba Tula gifts girl grazing Haberland halaal handura herd herdowners Hjort homestead household husband IDAR important Isiolo District Isiolo Town jallaba Karayu Kinna Kotele labour less lineage livestock living loans mainly maize manyattas marriage married milking rights miraa moiety mother Muslim northern Kenya Ola Ilman Kotele Oromo particular pastoral pastoral society pastoralists PC NFD political production redistribution relation Rendille Sabbu Sakuye Samburu senior shamba shifta shifta war situation small stock social sodda Somali structure Swahili tion trade traditional unit Waso Borana Wata wealth wife wives woman women young