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Figures 1 Writing in margins of anthropologist’s notebook 2 2 Qalad meeting outside courthouse in Sinkat town 18 3 Weaving 22 4 Balawait 23 5 Selling firewood 28 6 Door of bukar made of USAID oil cans 28 7 Girl tending goats 35 8 View from shanty settlement outside Sinkat town 38 9 Selling mats at bus terminal 40 10 Sons of sons’ lineages and sons of daughters’ lineages 46 11 Camel race during Haulia 54 12 Camel stamped with red hand mark for protection 76 13 Saulit wahalit hairstyle for little boys 83 ix Illustrations 14 Tatau hairstyle for pubescent girls 84 15 Tents of mother and two daughters 97 16 Women building tent 98 17 Seeking blessing inside saint’s tomb 101 18 Senior woman guarding bridal tent 103 19 Cooking 107 20 Graves of Hadat, Barakawin, and their seven sons 111 21 “Placenta tree” 114 22 Part of son-birth ritual under tree 114 23 Bukars of two co-wives 123 24 Ijar silver jewelry with red and black-and-white beads 140 25 Mothering 155 26 Ijar costume of European, kustani, and Beni Amir, jibali 164 Map Hadendowa territory and that of neighboring Beja groups 15 Tables 1 Animals owned before and after 1984 –85 famine 37 2 Husbands’ occupations 39 3 “Son-infertility”by women’s age and martial status 119 Color insert following page 106 Dancing with sunkab Sunkab parade heading toward tomb of Alsharifa Maryam Leaders of sunkab parade with fauta bridal gifts over their heads Sunkab parade stopping close to tomb Blessing sunkabs at local mosque before heading to tomb Groom wearing shall-style yellow mindil Groom and his best men dancing with male relatives to drumming and singing of women Fetching drinking water x Illustrations ...

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