TY  - CHAP
AU  - Lewis, I. M.
PY  - 1957
DA  - 1957//
TI  - The Somali lineage system and the total genealogy: a general introduction to basic principles of Somali political institutions
PB  - [s.n.]
CY  - Hargeisa, British Somaliland
KW  - Somalis
KW  - Somali
KW  - Lineages
KW  - Social stratification
AB  - This is a report for administrative officials in the Somali country. It is concerned with the Somali political institutions which Lewis shows to be based on the lineage system. In the sections included here, Lewis discusses kinship, lineage alliances, adoption and genealogical fictions, the position of Asian immigrants, the separate status of Sab bondsmen, the construction of the total genealogy, descent from Arabia, deviant claims of Arabian descent, and independent Arabian clans of sheikhs and teachers. Lewis taught at the University College of Rhodesia and Nyasaland.
UR  - https://ehrafworldcultures.yale.edu/document?id=mo04-014
LA  - English
N1  - I. M. Lewis
ID  - mo04-014
Y1  - 2022-06-28
ER  -