TY  - CHAP
AU  - Cerulli, Enrico
PY  - 1959
DA  - 1959//
TI  - The origin of the lower castes of Somalia
BT  - somalia, scritti vari editi ed inediti
SP  - HRAF Ms: 8  [original: 95
EP  - 99 ]
VL  - Vol. 2
PB  - A Cura dell'Amministrazione Fiduciaria Italiana della Somalia ; Instituto poligrafico dello Stato P.V.
CY  - Roma
KW  - Somalis
KW  - Somali
KW  - Social stratification
AB  - 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.
UR  - https://ehrafworldcultures.yale.edu/document?id=mo04-023
LA  - English
N1  - Enrico Cerulli
ID  - mo04-023
Y1  - 2022-06-28
ER  -