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Page 134
... groups of people having a stricter sense of kinship . Normally , clans would be exogamous ; that is , marriage within the clan would be forbidden . Further , a person's lineage within the clan would be important in determin- ing his ...
... groups of people having a stricter sense of kinship . Normally , clans would be exogamous ; that is , marriage within the clan would be forbidden . Further , a person's lineage within the clan would be important in determin- ing his ...
Page 166
... groups residing in Darfur , the Republic of The Sudan's westernmost province — the larg- est resident group being the Fur , after whom the province is named , who occupy the centre and number about 1,300,000 . The greater part of the ...
... groups residing in Darfur , the Republic of The Sudan's westernmost province — the larg- est resident group being the Fur , after whom the province is named , who occupy the centre and number about 1,300,000 . The greater part of the ...
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... groups , with distinct ethnic character- istics . Apart from a few tribal groups of non - Arab stock and the mixed urban population , the inhabitants of Sinai and the northern section of the Eastern Desert are all fairly recent ...
... groups , with distinct ethnic character- istics . Apart from a few tribal groups of non - Arab stock and the mixed urban population , the inhabitants of Sinai and the northern section of the Eastern Desert are all fairly recent ...
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