Dorobo

Dorobo
Axelskada av trä gestaltade i boken Handbook to the ethnographical collections (1910). I boken beskrivs Dorobo; "Hos masaierna, främst i och runt Mau-skogarna, finns vanligtvis en jaktstam av underlägsen status, känd som Dorobo".
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Östafrika

Dorobo är en äldre, nedsättande beteckning[källa behövs] för små grupper jägare-samlarefolk som lever i utkanten av olika jordbruks- och pastorala samhällen i Östafrika.[1] Ordet kommer från maa: il-tóróbò, "de boskapslösa".[källa behövs] Tidigare användes termen felaktigt av brittiska kolonisatörer som beteckning för en sammanhållen etnisk grupp, underlägsen massajerna.[2]

Även om de är marginaliserade folkgrupper så är inga dorobo isolerade från närliggande samhällen, dessa är dock helt annorlunda oorganiserade. Grannfolken har inte sällan tilldelat dem olika attribut kopplade till att de är marginaliserade. Som exempel kan nämnas att de skulle ha samröre med "vilda amoraliska varelser",[a] och att deras förfäder ska ha varit närvarande vid den nuvarande världens skapelse.[b] Således är de marginaliserade ekonomiskt, rumsliga och tidsmässigt.[1]

Bland de folkgrupper som kallats dorobo finns yaaku, akie, mediak, kisankasa[källa behövs] och Ogiek, Mukogodo, Kinare, Omiotik, Aramanick, Chamus, Maasai Dorobo och El molo.[3] Få av dem lever längre jägare-samlare-liv.[källa behövs]

Anmärkningar

  1. ^ "amalgamated with wild amoral creatures"
  2. ^ "their ancestors are thought to have been in attendance at the birth of the present world"

Källor

  1. ^ [a b] Kenny, Michael G. (1981). ”Mirror in the Forest: The Dorobo Hunter-Gatherers as an Image of the Other”. Africa: Journal of the International African Institute 51 (1): sid. 477–495. doi:10.2307/1158950. ISSN 0001-9720. https://www.jstor.org/stable/1158950. Läst 21 februari 2023. 
  2. ^ Lee, Richard (1982-09-30) (på engelska). Politics and History in Band Societies. CUP Archive. ISBN 978-0-521-24063-5. https://books.google.se/books?id=wHs6AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA278&lpg=PA278&dq=Dorobo&source=bl&ots=uazIW48UqZ&sig=ACfU3U3P78omSoyGLi2WWkNAs4XMsvno2Q&hl=sv&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjY47HFsKf9AhXHiIsKHTytA5o4FBDoAXoECAMQAg#v=onepage&q=Dorobo&f=false. Läst 21 februari 2023 
  3. ^ Project, Joshua. ”Omotik, Ndorobo in Kenya” (på engelska). joshuaproject.net. https://joshuaproject.net/people_groups/13178/KE. Läst 21 februari 2023. 

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Fig. 175. – Wooden shoulder shields (ndomi), worn at dances. AKikuyu, East Africa Protectorate.

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Title: Handbook to the ethnographical collections
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors:British Museum. Dept. of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography Joyce, Thomas Athol, 1878-1942 Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945
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With these should be classed, on linguistic and ethnographical grounds, the Karamojo, who are nevertheless physically Bantu. All these tribes appear to be connected through the Latuka with the Bari and the true Nilotes; they are, like the last, pastoral tribes with the exception of a section of a section of the Masaiwho have developed agricultural habits, and are occasionally known as WaKuafi. With the Masai, chiefly in and around the Mau forests, are usually found a hunting tribe of inferior status, known as the Dorobo. For the sake of convenience, certain of these Bantu tribes, who have adopted the habits and customs of the Masai, will be described here. These are, in a southerly direction: the AKkamba, between Kilima Njaro and the river; the WaTaita, south-east of the last; the WaChaga, on the southern slopes of Kilima Njaro; and also the AKikuyu around Mt. Kenia, who resemble the agricultural Masai. The first four seem AFRICA 199 to have moved south-west from the Tana valley, where the WaPokomo, probably the parent stock, is still settled. They would appear to be connected also with the WaGiriama, WaDuruma, and WaDigo, nearer the coast and south of the Sabaki River, who again show signs of having come under the influence of the Masai, and may even have become connected with them by blood.
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Fig. 175.—Wooden shoulder-shields (ndomi), worn at dances. AKikuyu, East Africa Protectorate.
Clothing amongst these tribes is again entirely of skin, and as far as the men are concerned is nearly as scanty as among the pure Nilotes, though the women are more fully clothed. Tooth mutilation occurs locally (Masai, AKamba); cicatrization is found among the Bantu and among the AKikuyu and Naivasha Masai, who produce it by means of caustic vegetable juice. Lip-plugs are found (Karamojo, Turkana, Suk), and the ears are loaded with ornaments, iron chains, wooden plugs and the like (figs. 22, 173, 174). Except for the huge chignons of Turkana and Sukmen, no elaborate hairdressing is found. The warriors of the 200 AFRICA Masai and their imitators wear a number of special ornaments, among which those of ostrich feathers are most conspicuous (fig. 177). All, except the Turkana, practise circumcision. The Turkana, Suk and pastoral Masai, are purely pastoral, and live mainly on milk and blood; th

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