Daasanach people: Difference between revisions - Wikipedia

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| related = [[Nilotic peoples]],<ref name="Lopez1">{{Cite journal |last1=López |first1=Saioa |last2=Tarekegn |first2=Ayele |last3=Band |first3=Gavin |last4=van Dorp |first4=Lucy |last5=Bird |first5=Nancy |last6=Morris |first6=Sam |last7=Oljira |first7=Tamiru |last8=Mekonnen |first8=Ephrem |last9=Bekele |first9=Endashaw |last10=Blench |first10=Roger |last11=Thomas |first11=Mark G. |last12=Bradman |first12=Neil |last13=Hellenthal |first13=Garrett |date=2021-06-11 |title=Evidence of the interplay of genetics and culture in Ethiopia |url=https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/10129616/1/s41467-021-23712-w.pdf |journal=Nature Communications |language=en |volume=12 |issue=1 |pages=3581 |doi=10.1038/s41467-021-23712-w |issn=2041-1723|doi-access=free |pmid=34117245 |pmc=8196081 |bibcode=2021NatCo..12.3581L }}</ref>{{efn|The Daasanach along with the related [[Arbore people|Arbore]] form a branch with the [[Nyangatom_people|Nyangatom]] [[Teso–Turkana_languages|(Teso-Turkanic)]] and the [[Karo_language_(Ethiopia)|Karo]] [[Aroid_languages|(South Omotic)]] on the [[cladogram]] (a diagram used in [[cladistics]]) showing affinities between a wide sample of Ethiopian populations. See Supplementary Materials of López et al (2021), page 49.{{cite web |url=https://archive.today/20240409022541/https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8196081/ |title=Evidence of the interplay of genetics and culture in Ethiopia |access-date=2024-04-09}}}} [[Aroid_languages|Aroid]] (South Omotic) peoples such as the [[Karo_language_(Ethiopia)|Karo]],<ref name="Lopez1" /> and [[Cushitic languages|Cushitic peoples]] <small>(primarily of the </small>[[Western_Omo–Tana_languages|Western Omo–Tana]]<small> branch)</small><ref name="Poloni1">{{cite journal|author1=Estella S. Poloni |author2=Yamama Naciri |author3=Rute Bucho |author4=Régine Niba |author5=Barbara Kervaire |author6=Laurent Excoffier |author7=André Langaney |author8=Alicia Sanchez-Mazas |title=Genetic Evidence for Complexity in Ethnic Differentiation and History in East Africa|journal=Annals of Human Genetics|date=November 2009|volume=73|issue=6|pages=582–600|doi=10.1111/j.1469-1809.2009.00541.x|pmid=19706029|s2cid=2488794 |url=https://archive-ouverte.unige.ch/unige:2714 }}</ref>

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The '''Daasanach''' (also known as the '''Marille''' or '''Geleba''') are an ethnic group inhabiting parts of [[Ethiopia]], [[Kenya]], and [[South Sudan]]. Their main homeland is in the [[Debub Omo Zone]] of the [[Southern Nations, Nationalities, and People's Region]], adjacent to [[Lake Turkana]]. According to the 2007 national census, they number 48,067 people (or 0.07% of the total population of Ethiopia), of whom 1,481 are urban dwellers.<ref name=2007-census/>

[[File:Warrior,_Dassanech_Tribe,_Ethiopia_(21256536462).jpg|thumb|A Daasanach man]]

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==Daily life==

[[File:Dassanech Boys (49093655253).jpg|thumb|Daasanach boys]]The Daasanach are a primarily agropastoral people; they grow sorghum, maize, pumpkins and beans when the Omo river and its delta floods. Otherwise the Daasanach rely on their goats and cattle which give them milk, and are slaughtered in the dry season for meat and hides. Sorghum is cooked with water into a porridge eaten with a stew. Corn is usually roasted, and sorghum is fermented into beer. The Daasanach who herd cattle live in dome-shaped houses made from a frame of branches, covered with hides and woven boxes (which are used to carry possessions on donkeys when the Daasanach migrate). The huts have a hearth, with mats covering the floor used for sleeping. The Dies, or lower class, are people who have lost their cattle and their way of living. They live on the shores of Lake Turkana hunting crocodiles and fishing. Although their status is low because of their lack of cattle, the Dies help the herders with [[crocodile meat]] and fish in return for meat.▼

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▲The Daasanach are a primarily agropastoral people; they grow sorghum, maize, pumpkins and beans when the Omo river and its delta floods. Otherwise the Daasanach rely on their goats and cattle which give them milk, and are slaughtered in the dry season for meat and hides. Sorghum is cooked with water into a porridge eaten with a stew. Corn is usually roasted, and sorghum is fermented into beer. The Daasanach who herd cattle live in dome-shaped houses made from a frame of branches, covered with hides and woven boxes (which are used to carry possessions on donkeys when the Daasanach migrate). The huts have a hearth, with mats covering the floor used for sleeping. The Dies, or lower class, are people who have lost their cattle and their way of living. They live on the shores of Lake Turkana hunting crocodiles and fishing. Although their status is low because of their lack of cattle, the Dies help the herders with [[crocodile meat]] and fish in return for meat.

Women are [[Female genital cutting|circumcised]] by removing the [[clitoris]]. Women who are not circumcised are called animals or boys and cannot get married or wear clothes. Women wear a pleated cowskin skirt and necklaces and bracelets, they are usually married off at 17 while men are at 20. Boys are [[Circumcision|circumcised]]. Men wear only a checkered cloth around their waist.