Pastoral movements and the subsistance unit of the Rendille of Northern Kenya: with special reference to camel ecology in Africa 2.

Auteur :
SATO, S.

Description :
This paper describes and analyses the livestock ecology, pastoral movements and changes in Rendille social groups. New concepts such as the cooperative herding group, homogeneous or heterogeneous fission-fusion of the social group and the subsistence unit are presented. The importance of camels, technological adjustments to camel rearing for a stable food resource, the determinants of pastoral movement and its patterns, social adaptations to camel herding, and the peculiarities of camel pastoral society are discussed.


Type de document :
Article de périodique

Source :
Senri Ethnological Studies Osaka, 1980, n°. 6, p. 1-78, Références bibliographiques : 3 p.

Date :
1980