Catherine Besteman

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Unraveling Somalia: Race, Class, and the Legacy of SlaveryPaperback, 7 May 1999

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Part of Series
Ethnography of Political Violence
Part of Series
Ethnography of Political Violence (Paperback)
Print Length
296 pages
Language
English
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Date Published
7 May 1999
ISBN-10
0812216881
ISBN-13
9780812216882

Description

In 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.

Product Details

Author:
Catherine Besteman
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
7 May 1999
Dimensions:
22.61 x 14.99 x 1.78 cm
ISBN-10:
0812216881
ISBN-13:
9780812216882
Language:
English
Location:
Philadelphia
Pages:
296
Weight:
453.59 gm

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