"you must belong to those beef-cattle peoples down the road," i said. they said "asalamalakim" when they met you, too, but they didn't shake hands. always too busy: feeding the cattle, fixing the fences, putting up salt-lick shelters, throwing down hay. when the white folks poisoned some of the herd the men stayed up all night with rifles in their hands. i walked a mile and a half just to see the sight. hakim-a-barber said, "i accept some of their doctrines, but farming and raising cattle is not my style." (they didn't tell me, and i didn't ask, whether wangero (dee) had really gone and married him.) what is the meaning of the word doctrines as it is used above? beliefs livestock work ethics medicine