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| Title: | Gender Relations and the Transformation of the Northern Somali Pastoral Tradition |
| Author: | Kapteijns, Lidwien |
| Year: | 1995 |
| Periodical: | International Journal of African Historical Studies |
| Volume: | 28 |
| Issue: | 2 |
| Pages: | 241-259 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic terms: | Somalia Somaliland |
| Subjects: | gender relations dual economy kinship Women's Issues History and Exploration Economics and Trade Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) Historical/Biographical Cultural Roles Sex Roles |
| External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/221614 |
| Abstract: | This paper deals with the role of the ideology of kinship in precapitalist, pastoralist, northern Somali society and the demise of this ideology as a result of the social transformations wrought by commercial capital and the colonial State. Gaining an understanding of the history of gender relations is a central objective, which is pursued by analysing gender inequality in the context of other relationshps of inequality such as those based on age and class. The ideology of precapitalist northern Somalia (c. 1850-1935) governed a community of subsistence-oriented and self-sufficient producers, in which age and gender were the major axes of inequality and in which marriage was the institution in which these inequalities were reproduced. Since the middle of the 19th century a middle class of traders and new political leaders gradually gained hegemony over and transformed the economic, political and social bases of that community. The ideology of kinship was replaced by the ideology of 'clannism', whose central concepts are debt and dependence in a context of class inequality. While age has become less significant, gender has continued to be a major determinant of inequality in Somali society. Notes, ref. |
