Pastoral Partners: Affinity and Bond Partnership Among the Dassanetch of South-west Ethiopia |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Sections clans moieties and generationsets | 14 |
Environment and land use | 36 |
The household herd | 65 |
Camps movements and cooperation | 87 |
The allocation of bridewealth | 174 |
Bibliography | 250 |
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age-mates age-peers agnates Alain allocation Amsar Arturga asked base camp betrothal big rains bond partners bond partnerships bride bride-cattle bride-givers bride-receiver bride-wealth rights bride's father brokerage power bulls cattle circumcised claims clan co-operation cognates cultivators dalto Dassanetch Dassanetchland daughters dimi ceremony dry season east bank economic elder establish fargoginte father's brother full brothers Gabbra Gabite generation-set gift girl girl's grain grazing holder household herd husband inherited Inkabelo inundated Karimojong Kinatch kinship kinsmen Kute Kwata labour Lake Turkana lil-metch livestock Lotegemoi Lower Omo man's marriage married meat milk moiety Moruase mother name-giving Nyamumery Omo River pastures person receive bride-wealth refused rela relations Rendille residential unit rights to bride-wealth river bank Samburu senior settlement Silomoi sister slaughter small bride-stock small-stock smeared smearer social credit social relationships sons sorghum stock camps strip strong bond sub-clan tionships tribal section Turkana usually west bank wife women young