Culture in Samalian Life

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-In traditional Somali clans, men and older boys tend camels, cattle, and valued animals
-Girls and young boys tend the sheep and goats.
-when a man is killed, his life is usually worth 100 camels while a womans’ is around 50
-Grown Somali men usually serve their clan-family council
-An urban man usually works as a businessman, blacksmith, craftsman, fisherman, or factory worker
-Women in nomadic clans care for the children, cook, and moving the family aqal
-Women in farming clans plant, harvest, care for children, and cook
-Women in Urban areas work at shops, offices, and other businesses
-Somali women are expected to fulfill their duties as daughters, wives, and mothers.
-Even if the woman doesn’t wear a Muslim veil,still do not socialize with men in public places
-by law of Muslim leaders Somali girls are forced to undergo a circumcision
-women in the 1990’s finally started to eat out with men
-at home, it is the culture for women to serve the men first, and then eat with their children after the men have finished
-women have learned to take care of themselves after many men were killed after the civil war
-henna leaves have been gathered by organizations to help nomadic women make cosmetics
-when a man is killed, his life is usually worth 100 camels while a womans is around 50

Family/Kinship:

-The a Somali family usually has a man, his wife, children, and grandparents
- sometimes somali homes may have more than one wife, if this is the case, then the wife’s child would go live their mother in their own house
-If a family is divorced, the child goes to the mother
-The male is considered the head of the household, except where it is headed by a divorced or widowed woman.
-because of the Islamic law, boys and girls are sep...

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...en fiber mats, cloth, tin that is in the shape of a dome
- Cooking utensils, storage boxes, stools, woven mats, and water bags were the nomads few possessions
-people who live in urban areas usually live in an Arab-style white house made of stone/brick covered with plaster/cement
-Wealthy people may have Western-style homes
-sometimes the somali people who live in the city live without any electricity or running water
-more than 50% of Somalis are self-employed herders, farmers, or independent business owners
-1990’s: people that live near the ravine and southeast areas of Somalia are descendants of Africans once enslaved by the Somalis
-these descendants of this group of people are called habash.
-though the habash peoples are not mistreated, they are thought to be of lower class by the Somali
-2000: the percentage for factory, plantation, and fishing jobs rose

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