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

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

In 1991 the Somali state collapsed. Once heralded as the only true nation-state in Africa, the Somalia of the 1990's 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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Main Author: Besteman, Catherine Lowe
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999.
Series:Ethnography of political violence.
Subjects:
1800-1999
Somali Bantu (African people) > Somalia > Qossoldoor > History > 19th century.
Somali Bantu (African people) > Somalia > Qossoldoor > History > 20th century.
Slavery > Somalia > Qossoldoor > History > 19th century.
Slavery > Somalia > Qossoldoor > History > 20th century.
Ethnic relations
Somali Bantu (African people)
Politics and government
Slavery
Qossoldoor (Somalia) > Politics and government > 19th century.
Qossoldoor (Somalia) > Politics and government > 20th century.
Qossoldoor (Somalia) > Ethnic relations > History > 19th century.
Qossoldoor (Somalia) > Ethnic relations > History > 20th century.
Somalia > Qossoldoor
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments; 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.
  • EpilogueGlossary; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z.

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