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OverviewIn 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 civil war, scholarly and popular analyses explained Somalia's disintegration as the result of ancestral hatreds played out in warfare between various clans and subclans. In Unraveling Somalia, Catherine Besteman challenges this view and argues that the actual pattern of violence-inflicted disproportionately on rural southerners-contradicts the prevailing model of ethnic homogeneity and clan opposition. She contends that the dissolution of the Somali nation-state can be understood only by recognizing that over the past century and a half there emerged in Somalia a social order based on principles other than simple clan organization-a social order deeply stratified on the basis of race, status, class, region, and language. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Catherine BestemanPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Imprint: University of Pennsylvania Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.444kg ISBN: 9780812216882ISBN 10: 0812216881 Pages: 296 Publication Date: 07 May 1999 Audience: College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments PT. I. INTRODUCTION 1. Somalia from the Margins: An Alternative Approach 2. Fieldwork, Surprises, and Historical Anthropology PT. II. THE HISTORICAL CREATION OF THE GOSHA 3. Slavery and the Jubba Valley Frontier 4. The Settlement of the Upper Gosha, 1895-1988 PT. 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 PT. IV. VIOLENCE AND THE STATE 8. The Political Economy of Subordination 9. Conclusion Epilogue Glossary Notes Bibliography IndexReviewsBesteman's well-written and important book is a fine example of how careful scholarship can expose the realities behind widely held beliefs. -Choice Author InformationCatherine Besteman is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Colby College. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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