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From water to world-making : African models and arid lands
- Title
- From water to world-making : African models and arid lands / edited by Gísli Pálsson.
- Publication
- Uppsala : Scandinavian Institute of African Studies, 1990.
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- Description
- 206 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Subject
- Folk models > Africa, East > Congresses
- Human ecology > Africa, East > Congresses
- Human ecology > Arid regions > Congresses
- Nomads > Africa, East > Social life and customs > Congresses
- Cabo Verdeans > Fishing
- Arid regions > Africa, East > Congresses
- Cabo Verde > Social life and customs
- Africa, East > Social life and customs > Congresses
- Note
- Revised papers presented at the Workshop on Symbols and Resource Management in African Arid Lands, held in Helsinki in 1989.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-199) and index.
- Contents
- The sources of life : Boran conceptions of wells and water / Gudrun Dahl and Gemetchu Megerssa -- Cattle are companions, goats are gifts : animals and people in Turkana thought / Vigdis Broch-Due -- Formal categories in Maasai symbolism / Arvi Hurskainen -- Ways of milk and meat among the Maasai : gender identity and food resources in a pastoral economy / Aud Talle -- Cultural models in Cape Verdean fishing / Gísli Pálsson -- Symbolic identification among the Hadendowa of Eastern Sudan / M.A. Mohammed Salih -- From slave to citizen : cultural change among the Lafofa Nuba of Central Sudan / Leif Manger -- The changing patterns of pastoral production in Somali society / Ebbe Poulsen -- Drought and change amongst Northern Kenya normadic pastoralists : the case of the Rendille and Gabra / Michael F. O'Leary -- Pastoral territoriality and land degradation in Tanzania / Daniel K. Ndagala.
- Call Number
- Sc E 94-47
- ISBN
- 9171063137
- LCCN
- 91199838
- OCLC
- 25787909
- NYPG94-B5872
- Title
- From water to world-making : African models and arid lands / edited by Gísli Pálsson.
- Imprint
- Uppsala : Scandinavian Institute of African Studies, 1990.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-199) and index.
- Added Author
- Gísli Pálsson, 1949-Workshop on Symbols and Resource Management in African Arid Lands (1989 : Helsinki, Finland)
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 94-47