Madhiban
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The Madhiban ([Madhibaan] Error: {{Lang-xx}}: text has italic markup (help)), also known as the Midgaan (an appellation which is sometimes used pejoratively[1]), is a Somali clan.
Overview
Its members are principally concentrated in northern Somalia, numbering only around 9,000 individuals (1960's estimate).
The Madhiban trace descent from a patriarch named Musa Deriyeh. They were traditionally hunters, but now engage in occupational activities such as leather work (shoemaking).
Because of their farmer-craftsmen history, which some Somalis consider to be lower caste occupations, they are often viewed as being of a lower caste or class. In the 1980's under the dictatoship of Siad Barre, they were allowed upward social mobility, but since the civil war of the 1990's, discrimination against them has increased again.[2]
As Gabboye, the Madhiban along with the Yibir and Tumaal (collectively referred to as sab) have since obtained political representation within Somalia, and their general social status has improved with the expansion of urban centers.[3]
Notable Madhiban
Notes
- ^ The Middle East, Issue 4, (Northumberland Press: 2007), p.196
- ^ [http//www.humiliationstudies.org/documents/evelin/DissertationPsychology.pdf "Evelin Gerda Lindner (2000) The psychology of humiliation, page258-262"] (PDF). Retrieved 22 September 2014.
{{cite web}}: Check|url=value (help) - ^ Lewis, I.M. (2008). Understanding Somalia and Somaliland: Culture, History, Society. Columbia University Press. p. 8. ISBN 0231700849.
References
- Hassan Ali Jama, Who cares about Somalia, (Verlag Hans Schiler: 2005)
- I.M. Lewis, A pastoral democracy, (James Currey Publishers: 1999)
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