cattle raiding
Stealing herded bovines
Cattle raiding is the theft of livestock, historically a widespread practice among pastoral societies where wealth was measured in herds.
Raiders would drive off cattle from rival clans, tribes, or settlements—sometimes as warfare, sometimes as a young man's rite of passage.
The practice persists in parts of Africa and elsewhere: Cattle raiding between villages has intensified since the drought.
- tribal warfareCombat between clan-based societies
- herdGrazing animals together
- chaseRapid following of quarry
- ropeThick twisted fibers
- tribal customsGroup's inherited social practices
bride price · blood money · stampede · gallop · resource scarcity · honor codes · rustling · night raid · blood feud · property rights · hit-and-run · war party · Maasai · oral histories · guerrilla tactics · wealth accumulation · tribal lands · grazing rights
- Maasaiwarriors, red ochre, ochre, red cloth, red clothing
- Nilotic culturescarification, tribal elders, elder councils, naming ceremonies, levirate marriage
- Karamojapastoralism, warrior culture, disarmament
- Scottish HistoryScottish Parliament, clans, Alba, Culloden, Bannockburn
- Nilotic peoplesMaasai
cattle raidingcattle ranching
Raising bovines commercially
cattle farming · cattle breeding · animal husbandry · cattle auction · stockbreeding