TY  - BOOK
AU  - Helander, Bernhard
PY  - 1988
DA  - 1988//
TI  - The slaughtered camel: coping with fictitious descent among the Hubeer of southern Somalia
PB  - University of Uppsala, Department of Anthropology
CY  - [Uppsala, Sweden]
KW  - Somalis
KW  - Somali
KW  - Gender status
KW  - Lineages
KW  - Clans
KW  - Magical and mental therapy
KW  - Burial practices and funerals
KW  - Ideas about nature and people
AB  - This is a study of the Hubeer clan of the Ooflaawe region of southern Somalia. This group traces its genealogical origins back in history to the Samaale cluster of clans, but they are considered as belonging to the Rahanweyn branch of the Somali nation. Helander's focus in this work is on the consequences of the fiction of descent. 'Fictitious descent constitutes both a cognitive problem for individuals and an ideological problem for the society at large' (p. 2). This document explores the ways in which the Hubeer cope with these problems. Topics given particular attention in this work are social organization, class structure, funerary rites, the concept of BURJI (beliefs and knowledge of individual character and capacity), medicine, attitudes toward strangers and their adoption into southern Somali descent groups, gender metaphors, and sex status, (particularly concepts of masculinity and femininity).
UR  - https://ehrafworldcultures.yale.edu/document?id=mo04-032
LA  - English
N1  - by Bernhard Helander
ID  - mo04-032
Y1  - 2022-07-02
ER  -