...Aneesa Kassam The “ethnic” origins of the Gabra camel pastoralists who live on the Kenyan-Ethiopian border and their relationship to the territorially adjacent Borana cattle pastoralists are matters of ongoing academic debate. This article, which is based on Gabra clan traditions, suggests that the...

.... Kassam, Aneesa 2006 The People of the Five “Drums”: Gabra Ethnohistorical Origins. Ethnohistory 53 ( 1 ): 174 –93. Lindgren, Björn 2004 The Internal Dynamics of Ethnicity: Clan Names, Origins and Castes in Southern Zimbabwe. Africa 74 ( 2 ): 173 –93. Luling, Virginia 2002 Somali...

... waterless Chalbi Desert, an extinct lake strewn with reddish volcanic ash and boulders. This is the land of the nomadic Somali, Gabra, Rendille, and Borana peoples. On the southern tip of the lake rise the slopes of Mount Kulal, the home of the elegant Samburu pastoralists. To the southeast the Elmolo...

... dispensaries in the Ren- Ethnohistory 53:1 (winter 2006) Copyright © 2006 by the American Society for Ethnohistory. 222 Paul Tablino dille and Gabra area at Laisamis and Kargi.2 The Bishop was a tough negotiator to deal with, but we managed...

... villages on southeastern shores. 206 Mustafa Kemal Mirzeler dille, the Gabra, the Samburu, and the Turkana (Sobania1988). The Elmolo in fact share most of the cultural practices of these pastoralist communities, which include an elaborate age-set system, and...