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In Somali political culture, clan solidarity is represented by the evocative symbols of blood and bone -- immutable natural endowments inherent in kinship traced through the father in the male line. Blood And Bone explores the extraordinary persistence and resilience of these age-old loyalties. Grounded in the traditional life resource, the basis of the individual's social, political and economic security, Outside the local pastoral economy, it has proved equally adaptable in organizing labor migration and livestock trading in the gulf states. It survived and even flourished under the anti-clan regime of "scientific socialism" of the 1970s, and played a crucial role in the most successful recent Somalia guerrilla movement. Above all, it dominates the 1990s crisis of the Somali state. Blood And Bone is "must" reading for anyone trying to understand the seemingly genocidal carnage that has reduced much of urban Somali to rubble, and why the United Nations efforts (led by the United States) to restore order and bring about the conditions for peace between warring Somali clans and factions were to prove so tragically unsuccessful. And why the violence and blood-letting goes on with no end in sight. -- Midwest Book Review
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IM Lewis is not an easy author to read. His writing is very dry, and sometimes difficult to follow because it is muddled down in technical anthropological jargon. However, this book is actually very easy to read. There is a ton of information about a very difficult subject.
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This familiar passage provides a salutary reminder that awareness of the dangers of the misuse of ethnographic information is scarcely as novel a hazard a some of the "radical" critics of Anthropology appear to think. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
genetricial rights, agnatic loyalties, genealogical span, nomadic hamlets, other patrilineal societies, dower contract, rural development campaign, burden camels, grazing movements, matrilateral ties, agnatic kin, camel camps, uterine family, primary lineage, widow inheritance, lineage affiliation, close agnates, polygynous family, northern nomads, affinal ties, national security service, lineage ties, agnatic descent, affinal relationship, fifty camels Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Habar Yuunis, Habar Awal, Omar Ilmi Dihoud, General Siyad, Saudi Arabia, Somali-London Association, Ahmed Mohamed Sufi, Sheikh Isaaq, Siyad Barre, President Siyad, Ahmed Ismail, Somaliland Protectorate, Ahmed Jimaali, Osman Ahmed Hassan, Somali Welfare Association, Somali Republic, Horn of Africa, Ismail Mahmud Warsama, Somali National Party, United Kingdom, Ali Mahdi, Habar Gidir, Somali Student Union, Habar Tot Ja'lo, Kim Il Sung New!
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This familiar passage provides a salutary reminder that awareness of the dangers of the misuse of ethnographic information is scarcely as novel a hazard a some of the "radical" critics of Anthropology appear to think. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
genetricial rights, agnatic loyalties, genealogical span, nomadic hamlets, other patrilineal societies, dower contract, rural development campaign, burden camels, grazing movements, matrilateral ties, agnatic kin, camel camps, uterine family, primary lineage, widow inheritance, lineage affiliation, close agnates, polygynous family, northern nomads, affinal ties, national security service, lineage ties, agnatic descent, affinal relationship, fifty camels Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Habar Yuunis, Habar Awal, Omar Ilmi Dihoud, General Siyad, Saudi Arabia, Somali-London Association, Ahmed Mohamed Sufi, Sheikh Isaaq, Siyad Barre, President Siyad, Ahmed Ismail, Somaliland Protectorate, Ahmed Jimaali, Osman Ahmed Hassan, Somali Welfare Association, Somali Republic, Horn of Africa, Ismail Mahmud Warsama, Somali National Party, United Kingdom, Ali Mahdi, Habar Gidir, Somali Student Union, Habar Tot Ja'lo, Kim Il Sung New!
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- Clausewitz and African War: Politics and Strategy in Liberia and Somalia (Cass Military Studies) by Isabelle Duyvesteyn in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Pastoralists: Equality, Hierarchy, and the State by Philip Carl Salzman in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Modern Clan Politics - Cloth by Edward Schatz in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Pastoralists: Equality, Hierarchy, And The State by Philip Carl Salzman in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Culture and Customs of Somalia (Culture and Customs of Africa) by Mohamed Diriye Abdullahi on page 53, and Back Matter
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