{"product_id":"unraveling-somalia-race-class-and-the-legacy-of-slavery-paperback","title":"Unraveling Somalia: Race, Class, and the Legacy of Slavery - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCatherine Besteman\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUnraveling Somalia Race, Class, and the Legacy of Slavery Catherine Besteman \"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 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 \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. \u003cb\u003eCatherine Besteman\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Colby College. The Ethnography of Political Violence 1999 296 pages 6 x 9 11 illus. ISBN 978-0-8122-1688-2 Paper $27.50s  18.00 World Rights Anthropology, History, African-American\/African Studies Short copy: \"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\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eCatherine Besteman is the Francis F. Bartlett and Ruth K. Bartlett Professor of Anthropology at Colby College.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 296\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 8.9 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 07, 1999\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47450429161650,"sku":"9780812216882","price":47.18,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/6f9bbd47b32829f7ad95ddd0b35932f6.webp?v=1778785194","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/unraveling-somalia-race-class-and-the-legacy-of-slavery-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}