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Author Lewis, I. M.

Title Blood and bone : the call of kinship in Somali society / Ioan M. Lewis
Published Lawrenceville, NJ : Red Sea Press, [1994]
©1994

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 W'PONDS  306.096773 Lew/Bab  AVAILABLE
Description ix, 256 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm
Contents 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
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Bibliography: pages [237]-251
Subject Families -- Somalia.
Patrilineal kinship -- Somalia.
Political anthropology -- Somalia.
SUBJECT Somalia -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85124770
Somalia -- Social conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85124772
LC no. 93047165
ISBN 093241592X
0932415938 (paperback)