Suffering Grass: Subsistence and Society of Waso BoranaDepartment of Social Anthropology, University of Stockholm, 1979 - 287 pages |
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... traditional titles . The colonial administrators approved of appointees who could claim some positive genealogical antecedents of leadership , in order to give the office an aura of traditional prestige . Accordingly , when the Wajir ...
... traditional titles . The colonial administrators approved of appointees who could claim some positive genealogical antecedents of leadership , in order to give the office an aura of traditional prestige . Accordingly , when the Wajir ...
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... traditional one . Yet , there is an important difference . Traditional expectations of hospitality do not include the ex- penditure of capital ( i.e. fertile livestock ) except in the context of formal religious or lineage - based ...
... traditional one . Yet , there is an important difference . Traditional expectations of hospitality do not include the ex- penditure of capital ( i.e. fertile livestock ) except in the context of formal religious or lineage - based ...
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... traditional values and through an appeal to those who are active pastoralists therefore can political influence be won . The central institution of the traditional , livestock - oriented community , the clan , is still vital to faction ...
... traditional values and through an appeal to those who are active pastoralists therefore can political influence be won . The central institution of the traditional , livestock - oriented community , the clan , is still vital to faction ...
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