Suffering Grass: Subsistence and Society of Waso BoranaDepartment of Social Anthropology, University of Stockholm, 1979 - 287 pages |
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Page 93
... handura although this term more precisely refers to a particular animal given to a newborn baby . Many of these gifts are customarily prescribed gifts at life - cycle ceremonies , like the two cows , one with a bull calf and one with a ...
... handura although this term more precisely refers to a particular animal given to a newborn baby . Many of these gifts are customarily prescribed gifts at life - cycle ceremonies , like the two cows , one with a bull calf and one with a ...
Page 116
... handura stock to Boran daughters , there are no strict rules on how it should be done . Instead , different fami- lies have their own traditions which range from " never a handura to a girl " to sometimes quite explicitly stated family ...
... handura stock to Boran daughters , there are no strict rules on how it should be done . Instead , different fami- lies have their own traditions which range from " never a handura to a girl " to sometimes quite explicitly stated family ...
Page 120
... handura belonging to her own child as a loan . Diramu later repaid the loan when , after the drought , the handura of her small boy had come into milk . At that stage , all Boru's cows were in milk , but they had become very few : there ...
... handura belonging to her own child as a loan . Diramu later repaid the loan when , after the drought , the handura of her small boy had come into milk . At that stage , all Boru's cows were in milk , but they had become very few : there ...
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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