Suffering Grass: Subsistence and Society of Waso BoranaDepartment of Social Anthropology, University of Stockholm, 1979 - 287 pages |
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Page 93
... gifts are customarily prescribed gifts at life - cycle ceremonies , like the two cows , one with a bull calf and one with a heifer , which are given at the Muslim name - giving ceremony , the waqalal , or the cattle given at ...
... gifts are customarily prescribed gifts at life - cycle ceremonies , like the two cows , one with a bull calf and one with a heifer , which are given at the Muslim name - giving ceremony , the waqalal , or the cattle given at ...
Page 95
... gifts . Such gifts can be given as the father pleases , often as rewards for childish accomplishments , such as being able to say abba ( Daddy ) or when the child has killed his first two mice . At the father's death there are usually ...
... gifts . Such gifts can be given as the father pleases , often as rewards for childish accomplishments , such as being able to say abba ( Daddy ) or when the child has killed his first two mice . At the father's death there are usually ...
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... gift should be . A simplified list is given in the table below . Table 8.1 Normative rules for gifts of taka Number of animals owned Cattle 30 60 100 Sheep and goats 35 60 100 Required minimal size of offering 1 ox 2-4 years old 1 ...
... gift should be . A simplified list is given in the table below . Table 8.1 Normative rules for gifts of taka Number of animals owned Cattle 30 60 100 Sheep and goats 35 60 100 Required minimal size of offering 1 ox 2-4 years old 1 ...
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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