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| Title: | System and Reality: The Camel Trust System fo the Gabra |
| Authors: | SOGA, Toru |
| Keywords: | Gabra Pastoralist Camel Exchange Clanship Ethnicity |
| Issue Date: | Dec-1997 |
| Publisher: | The Center for African Area Studies, Kyoto University |
| Journal title: | African Study Monographs |
| Volume: | 18 |
| Issue: | 3/4 |
| Start page: | 157 |
| End page: | 174 |
| Abstract: | This paper analyzes the "camel trust system" (dabare) of the Gabra, pastoralists in the Eastern Province of Kenya. The camel trust system creates the multiple networks in the Gabra society. This paper describes the trust system and analyzes the relationships which are found in the multiple networks. Then, how the trust system makes Gabra imagine the reality of their ethnicity and clanship is discussed. |
| DOI: | 10.14989/68162 |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2433/68162 |
| Appears in Collections: | Vol.18 No.3,4 |
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