I. An anthropologist at Large in the "Cinderella of Empire" -- II. The Roots of Kinship: Marriage and the Family in Northern Somaliland -- III. A Patrilineal Kinship Puzzle -- IV. Myth and History in Somali Genealogies -- V. Lineage Continuity and Commerce in Northern Somaliland -- VI. From Nomadism to Cultivation: The Expansion of Political Solidarity in Southern Somalia -- VII. Kim II - Sung in Somalia: The End of Tribalism? -- VIII. The Rise of the Somali National Movement: a Case-History in the Politics of Kinship / I. M. Lewis and G. P. Makris -- IX. Segmentary Nationalism and the Collapse of the Somali State