%0 Book Section
%T origin of the lower castes of Somalia
%A Cerulli, Enrico
%B somalia, scritti vari editi ed inediti
%D 1959
%V Vol. 2
%I A Cura dell'Amministrazione Fiduciaria Italiana della Somalia ; Instituto poligrafico dello Stato P.V.
%C Roma
%G English
%F mo04-023
%O Enrico Cerulli
%O Translation of: L'origine delle basse caste della Somalia.
%O The original Italian text is not included
%O Includes bibliographical references
%O Translated for the HRAF files by Piero Biancani
%X After a brief descriptive summary of the three lower castes of the Somali--the Yibir, the Midgan and the Tumal--Cerulli traces the origins of each in Somali society. Cerulli presents the theories of several other area specialists on the Somali, notably Biasutti, Paulitschke, Ruggieri, Kirk, and Schleicher. The Biasutti theory, for which the author expresses a strong preference, states in effect that the castes of Somalia are residues of pre-Cushitic populations conquered by the subsequent invasions. To this theory the author adds further substantiating data from his own research primarily in reference to language and geographical locations of these caste groups.
%K Somalis
%K Somali
%K Social stratification
%U https://ehrafworldcultures.yale.edu/document?id=mo04-023
%P HRAF Ms: 8  [original: 95-99 ]
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