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The Shaping of Somali Society : Reconstructing the History of a Pastoral People, 1600-1900 / Lee V. Cassanelli.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: The Ethnohistory SeriesPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]Copyright date: ©1982Edition: Reprint 2016Description: 1 online resource (312 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780812278323
  • 9781512806663
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 967.7301 19
LOC classification:
  • DT402.3
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Note on Transcription -- Note on the Use of Geographical and Clan Names -- Introduction -- 1. The Societal and Historiographical Background -- 2. Toward a Regional Approach to Somali Pastoral History -- 3. Pastoral Power: The Ajuraan in History and Tradition -- 4. Saints, Sultans, and Sectarians: Islamic Themes in Southern Somali History, ca. 1600-1850 -- 5. Southern Somali Commerce and Economy in the Nineteenth Century -- 6. Local History and Regional Resistance: The Somali Response to Colonial Occupation in the Benaadir Region, 1870-1910 -- Afterword -- Appendix A: Comments on the Collection and Use of Somali Oral Sources -- Appendix B: Glossary of Somali and Arabic Words -- Bibliography -- Index -- Backmatter
Summary: In seeking to reconstruct the past of this important African society, the author has drawn upon ethnographic and linguistic evidence, travelers' accounts, a substantial body of Somali oral traditions, and recollections gathered from several visits to the country. By combining oral tradition with traditional historiography, Cassanelli reveals the interplay of the precolonial environmental, social, economic, and religious cforces.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Note on Transcription -- Note on the Use of Geographical and Clan Names -- Introduction -- 1. The Societal and Historiographical Background -- 2. Toward a Regional Approach to Somali Pastoral History -- 3. Pastoral Power: The Ajuraan in History and Tradition -- 4. Saints, Sultans, and Sectarians: Islamic Themes in Southern Somali History, ca. 1600-1850 -- 5. Southern Somali Commerce and Economy in the Nineteenth Century -- 6. Local History and Regional Resistance: The Somali Response to Colonial Occupation in the Benaadir Region, 1870-1910 -- Afterword -- Appendix A: Comments on the Collection and Use of Somali Oral Sources -- Appendix B: Glossary of Somali and Arabic Words -- Bibliography -- Index -- Backmatter

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In seeking to reconstruct the past of this important African society, the author has drawn upon ethnographic and linguistic evidence, travelers' accounts, a substantial body of Somali oral traditions, and recollections gathered from several visits to the country. By combining oral tradition with traditional historiography, Cassanelli reveals the interplay of the precolonial environmental, social, economic, and religious cforces.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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