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AUTHOR
Bassi M
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The Borana conserved landscape, Ethiopia
2008
Every Woman an Artist: The Milk Containers of Elema Boru
1999
Sviluppo partecipante e sistemi tradizionali: Il caso dei Borana dell'Etiopia
1992
In the development programs concerning the Ethiopian Borana local groups are assigned the role of principal group for development initiatives. As such, the project seems to meet the principle of participatory development. However, among the Borana, local communities have very little organizational significance and no say at all on matters regarding rights of property. Such authority is instead attributed to descent groups, which are not localized. In particular, clans have both the organizational capacity to coordinate collective investments on natural resources and the authority to guarantee personal and collective property rights. It is therefore suggested that a direct link with clans an…
Hunters and pastoralists in East Africa: The case of the Waata and the Oromo-Borana
1997
Sviluppo etico e diritti umani in Etiopia
2002
Community Conserved Areas in the Horn of Africa
2006
The System of Cattle Redistribution among the Boraana Obbuu and its Implications for Development Planning
1990
The Complexity of an African Pastoral Polity. An Introduction to the Council Organization of the Borana-Oromo
1999
Forward
1995
Returnees in Mooyyale District, Southern Ethiopia: New Means for an Old Inter-Ethnic Game
1997
Calendar: Oromo
2003
Abbaa Dulaa
2003
Somali Sultanate: The Geledi City-State over 150 Years by Virginia Luling
2004
La carestia in Etiopia: alle radici del problema
2001
Sull'organizzazione sociale tradizionale dei Borana: Contributo al dibattito
1988
This article deals with the traditional social organization of the Borana, an Oromo-speaking pastoral group of Northern Kenya and Southern Ethiopia. A special attention is reserved to the political role of four basic institutions: the kinship system, the gadaa system, the hariyaa system and the qaalluu. Cet article concerne l'organisation sociale des Borana, un groupe pastoral de langue Oromo du Kenya septentrional et de l'Ethiopie méridionale. Une attention particulière est portée au rôle politique de quatre institutions fondamentales: le système de parenté, les systèmes gadaa et hariyaa, et le qaalluu.