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Unraveling Somalia : race, violence, and the legacy of slavery /

"In 1991 the Somali state collapsed. Once heralded as the only true nation-state in Africa, the Somalia of the 1990s suffered brutal internecine warfare. At the same time a politically created famine caused the deaths of a half a million people and the flight of a million refugees. During the c...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Besteman, Catherine Lowe
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [1999]
Colección:Ethnography of political violence.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • PART I. INTRODUCTION. 1. Somalia from the Margins: An Alternative Approach
  • - 2. Fieldwork, Surprises, and Historical Anthropology
  • -- PART II. THE HISTORICAL CREATION OF THE GOSHA. 3. Slavery and the Jubba Valley Frontier
  • - 4. The Settlement of the Upper Gosha, 1895-1988
  • -- PART III. THE GOSHA SPACE IN SOMALI SOCIETY. 5. Hard Hair: Somali Constructions of Gosha Inferiority
  • - 6. Between Domination and Collusion: The Ambiguity of Gosha Life
  • - 7. Negotiating Hegemony and Producing Culture
  • -- PART IV. VIOLENCE AND THE STATE. 8. The Political Economy of Subordination
  • - 9. Conclusion.