This collection of essays based on first-hand anthropological field research spanning many years, brings together in a single volume the author's collected mate
The Mayor of Mogadishu tells the story of one family's epic journey through Somalia's turmoil, from the optimism of independence to its spectacular unravelling.
This book has, from its first publication, been an essential reference tool for research of any aspect of society, history and culture in this part of Africa. O
By combining oral tradition with traditional historiography, Cassanelli reveals the interplay of the precolonial environmental, social, economic, and religious