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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
[1999]
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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.