A Pastoral Democracy
A Study of Pastoralism and Politics among the Northern Somali of the Horn of Africa
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7546833 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lidwien Kapteijns (Wellesley College, corresponding author), Mursal Farah (Institute for Research and Development) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 71 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 719 |
| Publication date | 2001-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | REVIEW |
| Review of | A Pastoral Democracy, I M Lewis, 1999 |
| Venue | Africa (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0001-9720 • E-ISSN: 1750-0184 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1161603 |
| OpenAlex | W1534134530 |
| Language | EN |
I. M. Lewis, A Pastoral Democracy: a study of pastoralism and politics among the northern Somali of the Horn of Africa, third edition. Classics in African Anthropology series. Oxford: James Currey, with the International African Institute, 1999, 370 pp., £14.95, ISBN 0 85255 280 7 (paperback). - Volume 71 Issue 4
African studies · Democracy · Ethnology · French horn · Geography · Livestock · Pastoralism · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Somali · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Law · Philosophy · Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
SomaliDhaqanphilosophies and the power of African ancestral wisdom
Kinship, Gender and Adaptation Processes in Exile
Ali's Disappearance
Somali refugees in Tower Hamlets
Circumcising Migration
Jubaland
Jihadi governance and traditional authority structures
Gum arabic collection in northern Kenya
Traditionele' Leiders en Instellingen in Somaliland. Een Somalische Staat in Opbouw
An open letter to Uncle Sam
Asymmetric Autonomy and the Settlement of Ethnic Conflicts
Zepter und Kerbholz, Macht und Geld. Der Vertrag zu Gunsten Dritter und die Institutionalisierung symbolisch generalisierter Kommunikationsmedien
Bringing the Sultan Back In
From Pastoral to State Politics
Customary Law Among the Bedouin of the Middle East and North Africa
Agamben in the Ogaden
What Is Policeness? On Being Police in Somalia
Dynamics of Clan Based Conflicts in Wajir County, Kenya
The Somali Civil War
East and South Africa
«Devo tornare dal mio gruppo». Integrazione e rete di sicurezza nella diaspora
Ankara’daki̇ Somali̇li̇ Göçmenleri̇n Sosyal Sermayeleri̇ Ve Dernekleşme Deneyi̇mleri̇
“Little Mogadishu” in Stockholm, or “Apartheid with a Friendly Face” in Sweden
Micro-history of a Nomadic Hamlet
Clan Configuration and Identity Networks in Somalia
Street Justice
Mobility, Land Use, and Leadership in Small-Scale and Middle-Range Societies
On the concept of 'definitive text' in Somali poetry
The Material Roots of the Suspended African State
Selected chiefs, elected councillors and hybrid democrats
Political identity, emerging state structures and conflict in northern Somalia
Negotiating Statehood in a Hybrid Political Order
The Rupture of Territoriality and the Diminishing Relevance of Cross-cutting Ties in Somalia after 1990
Merchant Capital, International Livestock Trade and Pastoral Development in Somalia
Trauma Stories
Human biology of African pastoralists
Decision-making organization and pastoral nomad camp size
State and Clan Violence in Somalia
The Role of the Safety Net in the Integration Process
Custom, contestation and co-operation
Cultural Perceptions of Aging
Authority and administration beyond the state
Limits of hybrid political orders
After piracy? Mapping the means and ends of maritime predation in the Western Indian Ocean
Capital of the imperial borderlands
The machinations of the Majerteen Sultans
The Somali Youth League constitution
Colonial resource capture
Hostages of peace
The Omani-Zanzibari Family
Taking sides and constructing identities
Lot's Wife and the Old Salt
Human kinship as a descendant-leaving strategy
Words, Worlds, and Wishes
The Problem of Values in the Analysis of Political Order Myths of Tribal Society and Liberal Democracy
The Informal Social Control of Homicide
Kinship, nomadism, and humanitarian aid among Somalis in Ethiopia
Which Way the Horn of Africa
Governing open access
Open access and the sovereign commons
Somalia
Trauma, Development, Dispossession
Governments Against States
Strengths in Somali Families
Somalia impasse
Continuities and changes regarding minorities in Somalia
Female genital mutilation, fertility control, women's roles, and the patrilineage in modern Sudan
Islam in Tribal societies
Rise of the Nomad Kings—Pastoral Polities in the Horn of Africa ( a.d. 650–1000)
The fair and the sanctuary
Tyranny as a Strategy for Survival in an 'Egalitarian' Society
Historical Aspects of Genealogies in Northern Somali Social Structure
Somalia
Speaking of Epistemic Injustice
City of Traders
The crisis of the postcolonial nation‐state and the emergence of alternative forms of statehood in the Horn of Africa
The Other
The global political economy of social crisis
Reassessing Barbara Pym
The development of education in post-conflict ‘Somaliland’
The Iron Law of Politics
Legacies of Empire
Facing famine
Somaliland
The state, Agrarian change and crisis of hegemony in Somalia
Specialisation and wealth inequality in a model of a clustered economic network
Education in Somalia
The Stock Owning Group and the Nomadic Unit Group among the Turkana in North-western Kenya
Political Centralization in Pre-Colonial Africa
Introduction
Women in pastoral production
Of Vigilance and Virgins
Power and Persistence
The Dual Foundations of Political Ideology Are Ubiquitous across Human Social Life
Movements of Revolutionary Change
Force and Fission in Northern Somali Lineage Structure1
Beyond Polarity
International African Institute
Social Classes and Economic Restructuring in Pastoral Africa
Somali Nationalism
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