Suffering Grass: Subsistence and Society of Waso BoranaDepartment of Social Anthropology, University of Stockholm, 1979 - 287 pages |
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Page 61
... calves and their mothers arrive at the camp from different direc- tions , the calves being led into the right enclosure by the children , who like everybody else in Sora's camp recognize all the cattle of the different herdowners . Once ...
... calves and their mothers arrive at the camp from different direc- tions , the calves being led into the right enclosure by the children , who like everybody else in Sora's camp recognize all the cattle of the different herdowners . Once ...
Page 72
... calves and milks their mothers . Milch camels with calves can be left to graze by themselves or be watched by a small child of seven : they do not move far from their young . The newly mated she - camels and the camel bull must be ...
... calves and milks their mothers . Milch camels with calves can be left to graze by themselves or be watched by a small child of seven : they do not move far from their young . The newly mated she - camels and the camel bull must be ...
Page 80
... calves . Gababo had 5 cows in milk , 6 pregnant cows , 3 heifers , 2 heifer calves and 2 small bull calves . Neither of them had cattle deposited with other people , or claims that they could raise on unreturned loans or unrealized ...
... calves . Gababo had 5 cows in milk , 6 pregnant cows , 3 heifers , 2 heifer calves and 2 small bull calves . Neither of them had cattle deposited with other people , or claims that they could raise on unreturned loans or unrealized ...
Contents
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