Understanding Somalia and Somaliland: Culture, History and Society - Couverture souple

Lewis, Ioan

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1850658986 ISBN 13 : 9781850658986

Editeur : C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd, 2008

Synopsis

Ioan Lewis details the history and culture of the Somali people, providing a unique window into this little-known culture and its increasingly public predicaments. He provides insight into the complex social, historical, and cultural hinterland that is the Somali heritage and pays close attention to the pervasive influence of traditional nomadism, especially its extremely decentralized nature. Lewis also addresses developments in the Somali political region since the collapse of the Republic in 1991, including the formation and steady development of the democratic state of Somaliland. Though it has grown into a de facto personality, this self-governing outpost of democracy is still officially unrecognized internationally. Lewis concludes with a discussion of the Islamist movement that brought a brief but astonishing period of stability to much of Southern Somalia in late 2006.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Ioan Lewis is professor emeritus of anthropology at the London School of Economics and author of Arguments with Ethnography: Comparative Approaches to History, Politics, and Religion. He is recognised internationally as the leading academic authority on the history and cultures of the Somali people, on which he has written dozens of books and articles over the last fifty years.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1850658986
• ISBN 13: 9781850658986
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 176
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