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... as the handicaps entailed in relying upon in- ciety. Finally, what impact did rapidly accelerating digenous clans to provide critical services, particu- changes in transportation have upon this culture of larly once again, in the realm of information- surveillance and intelligence gathering? If the Lon...

... be into Somaliland (northern Somalia) and Somalia such a dismal failure. The answer to this question is (southern Somalia). Moreover, southern Somalia to be found in the analysis of two wider problems descended into anarchy perpetuated by internecine stated in the beginning of this paper. For purposes clan...

... fields have advanced in a fairly ticularly those termed lineage or clan organiza- isolated way and remained relatively unnoted by tions, and brotherhood societies — both at home scholars in the other field. and in Southeast Asia. This essay seeks to integrate the research...

... occasionally find a fe- also a combination of political agitator and news male @bq poet, but it is not a common affair. 'Gubuy broadaster, commenting to listeners about what is poets are the traditional spokesmen of their patrilin- going on in the world. The following verse was com- eal clans...

..., such as using matrimonial alliances to avert fierce feuds ( vair ) between two enemy clans (or courts): If there is a situation of fierce family feud arising from a murder [of kinsman], By giving a word of engagement [between such families], no feud remains any further. 20 The solution Manch gives...

...- was the daughter of the Tanwar ruler Ajmal’s (Ramdev’s touchables was, from the high-caste viewpoint, further father’s) servant, the untouchable Sayar Megh of the aggravated by the fact that, although believed to be Jaipal clan. Dali Bai, as a reincarnation of Meghri, did twice-born, he chose...

... was produced in a courtly Rajput context. Could the patron of this manuscript have belonged to one of the Rajput clans that revolted against Aurangzeb during the Rajput Rebellion? It is also worth keeping in mind that, as Richard Eaton notes, between 1707 and 1750 “the Mughal-Rajput alliance showed signs...

... was also a polit­ic­ al one, for examp­ le in Karak, where the promi­ nent Azayzat clan remained Orthodox and loyal to the local Musl­im politi­­cal leade­ r­ship, while the newly converted Cath­o­lics changed alle­giance and moved en masse to the town of Madaba.36 Mohanna Haddad has described...

... effort. A wave of Coal, Clans and Power: The Setting for the Enugu strikes, spanning the period from 1937 to 1945, were Government Colliery;! provoked by management attempts to usurp control over the labor process from the hewers. These men The mines were located in southeastern Nigeria, had...

...- several hundred individuals. Its bulwark was the Afnan clan of tainly among the attractions for Shaykh al-Rais of Shiraz.10 great merchants, but it included dozens of humble members One suspects that his earlier foray into the city had been...

..., suggesting he may not have intended the book for children. The collection was one of several of Nyabongo's collections of Ugandan folktales, all of which carry meaning that may not have been evident to an American publisher: several of the birds he writes about are clan totems in western Uganda and carry...

... and third oldest, respectively. 12 Because their sister Puhpavati had been killed by a member of Vijo's Deora Cauhan clan, the Raja considered Vijo to be a foe with whom food should not be shared. He was also concerned that Akbar would hear about his brothers' dining with Vijo and be displeased, since...

... and experience—among Pashtuns from different tribal affiliations and villages. As in the Tribal Areas, Pashtuns in Lahore predominantly depended on networks and socialized within their own clans. However, working and studying in the city brought them in frequent contact with Pashtuns from other villages...

... invention, crafted to massage Anupgiri's ego. As he put it, “These poets would say anything to please their patrons.” Though Pathak's assertions were more than a little unsettling, I was intrigued by the details of Devi Dayal Pathak's encounter with the two branches of Arjun's clan. I traveled home eager...

... somebody else.” another. The main trick is having a valid ticket. . . . We travel She has already severed clan ties, moved her psyche from the the world with our gym bags and prayer rugs, unrolling them old country to the new, and become free as an individual, the in the transit lounges...

... lines di er- Past investigations of mahalleh often used ent from those of traditional family, clan, and quantitative methods or focused on traditional kinship. mahallehs (e.g., Rahmatollah Sedigh Sarvestani...

... inherited rights to medical clan lineages, including the patients. The other concerned the particular type of releasing of such clans from military duty.6 knowledge that comes from direct perception, that is, After the fall of the dynasty (ninth century), patron- from contact between the mind and sense...

... of today’s Paki- luch tribes are divided into a number of clans.10 stan. During the second half of the nineteenth The Iranian Baluch belong mostly to the Hanafi century, Baluchistan was divided by the British school of the Sunni faith of Islam. A few tribes between Iran and Pakistan.4 These two...

... citing a passage of various Rajput clans: the Tonwar Rajputs of Delhi, the Mahabharata as a clue to the whole question of how Mathura’s Jadus, Jaipur Kachwahas and Ajmer’s Chau- mythic cosmologies get established: hans. The 13 Meo pah and the multiple goo are ideally Gandharan...

... yari a building the By transformed land. oilfields D’Arcy khan. against khan setting and confeder- acy Bakhtiyari the fracturing Haft clans, Duraki ruling Lang the of families the Ilkhani and Hajji Ilkhani the between rivalries nurtured...