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The principles of alliance formation between Konso towns
Man • 5 (2) • Published In 1970 • Pages: 258-280
By: Hallpike, C. R. (Christopher Robert).
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article examines the principles governing inter-community alliances. It shows that Konso towns are related to one another both structurally and historically. Junior towns are established by migrants from a senior town. Contrary to the conventional view of kinship as a basis of lasting inter-group solidarity, the most friction was observed among towns that held senior-junior relationships. Consequently, the degree of alliance among towns appears inversely related to both structural and spatial distance. Relations among the different Konso villages were dynamic, greatly influenced by each town's pragmatic calculations of the costs and benefits of political alliance with other towns.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Community structure
- Inter-community relations
- Social relationships and groups
- Friendships
- Warfare
- Aftermath of combat
- Priesthood
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Konso
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2016
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Africa
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Eastern Africa
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Anthropologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Teferi Abate Adem ; 2015
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1965-1967
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1827-1967
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Konso Special Woreda, Southern Nations, Nationalities, and People's Region, Ethiopia
- NotesAdditional notes
- C. R. Hallpike
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- sf 80000548
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Konso (African people)