Research Catalog

Title

Conflict, age & power in North East Africa : age systems in transition / edited by Eisei Kurimoto & Simon Simonse.

Publication

Oxford : J. Currey ; Nairobi : E.A.E.P. ; Kampala : Fountain Publishers ; Athens : Ohio University Press, 1998.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Kurimoto, Eisei.
• Simonse, Simon.

Description

xiv, 270 p. : ill., maps; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Eastern African studies

Uniform Title

Eastern African studies (London, England)

Alternative Title

Conflict, age, and power in North East Africa

Subject

• Age groups > Africa, Northeast
• Age groups > Political aspects > Africa, Northeast
• Political leadership > Age factors > Africa, Northeast
• Kinship > Africa, Northeast
• Women > Africa, Northeast > Social conditions
• Social conflict > Africa, Northeast
• Africa, Northeast > Politics and government
• Africa, Northeast > Social conditions

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-263) and index.

Contents

Introduction / Simon Simonse & Eisei Kurimoto -- Resonance of age systems in southeastern Sudan / Eisei Kurimoto -- Age, conflict, & power in the Monyomiji age systems / Simon Simonse -- Brothers in arms : military aspects of East African age-class systems in historical perspective / John Lamphear -- Generational systems on the threshold of the third millennium / Serge A.M. Tornay -- Gada systems on the meta-ethnic level : Gabbra/Boran/Garre interactions in the Kenyan/Ethiopian borderland / Günther Schlee -- Women's age categories in a male-dominated society : the case of the Chamus of Kenya / Kaori Kawai -- Age systems & modes of predatory expansion / Paul Spencer -- Peacemakers, prophets, chiefs & warriors : age-set antagonism as a factor of political change among the Kipsigis of Kenya / Toru Komma -- The Rendille & the adaptive strategies of East African pastoralists / Shun Sato -- Two extinct age systems among the Iteso / Nobuhiro Nagashima.

Call Number

Sc D 98-1646

ISBN

• 0852552521 (cased)
• 0852552513 (paper)
• 082141240X (Athens University Press : cloth : alk. paper)
• 0821412418 (Athens University Press : pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

98009550

OCLC

38295177

Title

Conflict, age & power in North East Africa : age systems in transition / edited by Eisei Kurimoto & Simon Simonse.

Imprint

Oxford : J. Currey ; Nairobi : E.A.E.P. ; Kampala : Fountain Publishers ; Athens : Ohio University Press, 1998.

Series

Eastern African studies

Eastern African studies (London, England)

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-263) and index.

Added Author

Kurimoto, Eisei.

Simonse, Simon.

Research Call Number

Sc D 98-1646