They are a Nairo-Hamitic (Para-Nile) pastoral people living in the Karamoja region of Uganda. Their population is estimated at about 350,000. They maintain a traditional transhumance lifestyle and attack neighboring groups to steal cattle. Farming is done by women, and they cultivate millet and sorghum. They consist of 10 sub-tribes, each with its own religious center, but are unified by a complex age-group system and by patrilineal clans that cross the sub-tribes. They do not have a chiefdom, and the basic unit of society is the patrilineal joint family. Marriages are patrilocal and polygamous. As with other pastoral peoples, they place a central value on cattle. In 1979, they were subjected to plundering by remnants of the support of President Idi Amin, who had lost power, and in 1980, they suffered a severe famine due to drought, resulting in many deaths from starvation and the displacement of much of the population. Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica Concise Encyclopedia About Encyclopaedia Britannica Concise Encyclopedia Information |
ウガンダのカラモジャ地方に住むナイロ=ハム語(パラ=ナイル語)系の牧畜民。人口約 35万と推定される。伝統的な移牧生活を維持し,ウシの略奪を目的とした襲撃を近隣集団に対して行なう。農耕は女性が行ない,キビ,モロコシ類を栽培する。10の支族からなり,それぞれ宗教的中心地をもつが,複雑な年齢組体系と,父系氏族が支族を横断することによって統合を果たしている。首長制は存在せず,父系合同家族が社会の基本単位となる。婚姻は,夫方居住婚,一夫多妻制をとる。ほかの牧畜民と同様にウシに中心的価値がおかれている。1979年には,政権を失ったイディ・アミン大統領派の残党による略奪が行なわれ,さらに 1980年には干魃のため大飢饉にみまわれ,多数の飢死者を出すとともに人口の多くが難民化したといわれる。
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