A River of Blessings: Essays in Honor of Paul Baxter Book

	Contributors
	Introduction
1	On Pilgrimage to a Holy Tree	1
2	Gada as an Integrative Factor of Political Organization	15
3	Kinship, Fictive Kinship, Hierarchy, and Community among Shoan Oromo	31
4	The Pre-Sixteenth Century Oromo Presence within the Medieval Christian Kingdom of Ethiopia	43
5	The Land Is Crying: State Intervention and Cultural Resistance among the Matcha Oromo	67
6	Aloof Alollaa: The Inside and the Outside; Boran Oromo Environmental Law and Methods of Conservation	85
7	Patterns of Range Use, Nomadism, and Sedentarization: The Case of the Rendille and Gabra of Northern Kenya	99
8	Age, Generation, and Migration among the Moro of the Nuba Mountains, Sudan	113
9	Ethnicity Emblems, Diacritical Features, Identity Markers: Some East African Examples	129
10	Sanctions against Abuse of Authority in Precolonial Africa	148
11	Larteh Revisited: Changes at the Periphery, 1963-89	159
12	Poetry and Power: Aspects of a Tukulor Weavers' Song	171
13	The Domestic Food Economy of Southern Ashanti, Ghana	191
14	Cows and Cowboys: Some Aspects of the Commercialization of Cattle Production among the Fula of Northeastern Sierra Leone	207
15	Closed Minds, Open Systems: Affliction and Healing in West Nile, Uganda	225
16	Transformative Bones: A Theme in the Anthropology of Death in a Pastoral Society	247
17	On Pastoralism and Poverty	259
18	The Cultural Use of the Senses: The Case of Blind People	273
19	The Name of the Witch: Sagas, Sorcery, and Social Context	287
20	The Socialization of an International Student in Manchester - Paul Baxter's Role	307
	P.T.W. Baxter Bibliography	315