Suffering Grass: Subsistence and Society of Waso BoranaDepartment of Social Anthropology, University of Stockholm, 1979 - 287 pages |
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Page 173
... redistribution . This form of voluntary association between individu- al herdowners involves the transfer of irrevocable rights to specific animals and their offspring , and is initiated when a man accedes to a request for a cow from a ...
... redistribution . This form of voluntary association between individu- al herdowners involves the transfer of irrevocable rights to specific animals and their offspring , and is initiated when a man accedes to a request for a cow from a ...
Page 180
... redistribution in the future . It is obvious that clan redistribution has immediate advantages for the recipient qolle , but all partners in the system make long - term profits from taking part in it . Another way of establishing a fund ...
... redistribution in the future . It is obvious that clan redistribution has immediate advantages for the recipient qolle , but all partners in the system make long - term profits from taking part in it . Another way of establishing a fund ...
Page 182
... redistribution of material assets which also contribute to this . We have already mentioned that taka gifts are some- times given in the form of consumer items . There is also a more voluntary form of Muslim alms - giving , saddaga ...
... redistribution of material assets which also contribute to this . We have already mentioned that taka gifts are some- times given in the form of consumer items . There is also a more voluntary form of Muslim alms - giving , saddaga ...
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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