Lee Cassanelli
Biographic Data
| ID | 142773 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lee Cassanelli |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lee |
| FAMILY NAME | Cassanelli |
| SIGNATURE | CASSANELLI L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pennsylvania USA Philadelphia, PA |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Fighting for Peace in Somalia: A History and Analysis of the African Union Mission (Amisom), 2007–2017, by Paul D. Williams
Some thoughts on Abdirachid M. Ismail’s Reconfiguring the Somali Nation
The Opportunistic Economies of the Kenya-Somali Borderland in Historical Perspective
Introduction The history of the Somalia-Kenya borderland over the past century offers a classic example of the ways international boundaries can create opportunities as well as hardships for the peoples who live along and across them. This borderland has long been a site of contact among various ethnic/linguistic communities, among sedentary and mobile populations, and among competing political authorities with different concepts of sovereignty a…
Borders and Borderlands as Resources in the Horn of Africa
Tradition to text: Writing local somali history in the travel narrative of Charles Guillain (1846-48)
The essay offers some observations on the interplay of orality and literacy in Somali society, using the mid-nineteenth century travel narrative of Charles Guillain. Because Guillain was among the earliest Europeans to record local Somali traditions, the sources of his information and the circumstances in which he gathered it warrant scrutiny. A close reading of Guillain suggests that he relied heavily on Arabic-speaking informants; that these in…
Tradition to text: Writing local somali history in the travel narrative of Charles Guillain (1846-48)
The essay offers some observations on the interplay of orality and literacy in Somali society, using the mid-nineteenth century travel narrative of Charles Guillain. Because Guillain was among the earliest Europeans to record local Somali traditions, the sources of his information and the circumstances in which he gathered it warrant scrutiny. A close reading of Guillain suggests that he relied heavily on Arabic-speaking informants; that these in…
Tradition to text: Writing local somali history in the travel narrative of Charles Guillain (1846-48)
The essay offers some observations on the interplay of orality and literacy in Somali society, using the mid-nineteenth century travel narrative of Charles Guillain. Because Guillain was among the earliest Europeans to record local Somali traditions, the sources of his information and the circumstances in which he gathered it warrant scrutiny. A close reading of Guillain suggests that he relied heavily on Arabic-speaking informants; that these in…
The Opportunistic Economies of the Kenya-Somali Borderland in Historical Perspective
Introduction The history of the Somalia-Kenya borderland over the past century offers a classic example of the ways international boundaries can create opportunities as well as hardships for the peoples who live along and across them. This borderland has long been a site of contact among various ethnic/linguistic communities, among sedentary and mobile populations, and among competing political authorities with different concepts of sovereignty a…
Borders and Borderlands as Resources in the Horn of Africa
Some thoughts on Abdirachid M. Ismail’s Reconfiguring the Somali Nation
Fighting for Peace in Somalia: A History and Analysis of the African Union Mission (Amisom), 2007–2017, by Paul D. Williams
Political science (5 works) · African history and culture analysis (4 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Somali (3 works) · Geography (2 works) · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (2 works) · History (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Linguistics (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works)