Suffering Grass: Subsistence and Society of Waso BoranaDepartment of Social Anthropology, University of Stockholm, 1979 - 287 pages |
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Page 117
... woman has no more than one or two such beasts and many women have none . Instead , a woman's property mainly consists of animals to which she has only derived rights , and rights only pertaining to the use of their products . As we have ...
... woman has no more than one or two such beasts and many women have none . Instead , a woman's property mainly consists of animals to which she has only derived rights , and rights only pertaining to the use of their products . As we have ...
Page 126
... women whose children have grown up . Old women take on the care of orphans or ask younger relatives for a son or daughter to keep them company and to help in the domestic work . Such loans are extremely common , and any Waso Borana ...
... women whose children have grown up . Old women take on the care of orphans or ask younger relatives for a son or daughter to keep them company and to help in the domestic work . Such loans are extremely common , and any Waso Borana ...
Page 252
... women maintain mat - houses which do not lag behind the houses of the wealthier " town " households in charming embroideries and the pleasant scent of incense . Many of the permanent inhabitants of the manyattas are old women , however ...
... women maintain mat - houses which do not lag behind the houses of the wealthier " town " households in charming embroideries and the pleasant scent of incense . Many of the permanent inhabitants of the manyattas are old women , however ...
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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