Identities on the move : clanship and pastoralism in northern Kenya
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Identities on the move : clanship and pastoralism in northern Kenya
(African seminars : scholarship from the International African Institute, v. 8)
Routledge, 2019, c1989
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Identities on the move : clanship and pastorialism (sic) in northern Kenya
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Originally published: Manchester : Manchester University Press for the International African Institute, 1989
Includes bibliographical references (p. [266]-274) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Originally published in 1989, this book examines how the inter-ethnic relationships of the clans of the pastoral Rendille, Gabbra, Sakuye and some Somalis of northern Kenya and southern Ethiopia came about. It also examines the uses to which these inter-ethnic relationships are put: for example in managing herds. Oral history is combined with cultural comparison and the analysis of social structure. Blending synchronic and diachronic perspectives, the book synthesises historical ethnology in the Continental tradition with social anthropology. Historically it overturns some established ideas about how the Horn of Africa was settled. Anthropologically it shows how relations may exceed the bounds of the ethnic group as the conventional unit of study.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction 2. Clan, Phratry, Tribe, Ethnic Group as Defined by Empirical Findings 3. The Historical Frame 4. Elements of a Proto-Culture: a Comparative Approach to History 5. The Inter-Ethnic Clan Clusters 6. Conclusion. Appendix: Interviews and Their Locations
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