{"product_id":"unraveling-somalia-race-class-and-the-legacy-of-slavery-paperback-softback-9780812216882","title":"Unraveling Somalia; Race, Class, and the Legacy of Slavery (Paperback \/ softback) 9780812216882","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eUnraveling Somalia\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eRace, Class, and the Legacy of Slavery\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eCatherine Besteman (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780812216882\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 7 May 1999\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e296 pages, 11 illus.\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.9 cm, 0.468 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Besteman's well-written and important book is a fine example of how careful scholarship can expose the realities behind widely held beliefs.\"-\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDuring 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 \u003ci\u003eUnraveling Somalia\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePT. I. INTRODUCTION\u003cbr\u003e 1. Somalia from the Margins: An Alternative Approach\u003cbr\u003e 2. Fieldwork, Surprises, and Historical Anthropology\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePT. II. THE HISTORICAL CREATION OF THE GOSHA\u003cbr\u003e 3. Slavery and the Jubba Valley Frontier\u003cbr\u003e 4. The Settlement of the Upper Gosha, 1895-1988\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePT. III. THE GOSHA SPACE IN SOMALI SOCIETY\u003cbr\u003e 5. Hard Hair: Somali Constructions of Gosha Inferiority\u003cbr\u003e 6. Between Domination and Collusion: The Ambiguity of Gosha Life\u003cbr\u003e 7. Negotiating Hegemony and Producing Culture\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePT. IV. VIOLENCE AND THE STATE\u003cbr\u003e 8. The Political Economy of Subordination\u003cbr\u003e 9. Conclusion\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEpilogue\u003cbr\u003e Glossary\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52676788289816,"sku":"9780812216882","price":24.37,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/unraveling-somalia-race-class-and-the-legacy-of-slavery-paperback-softback-9780812216882","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}