In Somali political culture, clan solidarity is represented by the evocative symbols of blood and bone - immutable natural endowments inherent in kinship traced through the father in the male line. This book explores the extraordinary persistence and resilience of...

This book analyzes crucial episodes in the recent political history of the Somali people. In their complicated dialogue with ‘modernity’, the Somalis illustrate the extremes of modern African statehood.

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.

This collection of essays based on first-hand anthropological field research spanning many years, brings together in a single volume the author's collected material on characteristics of popular Islam amongst the Somali of the Horn of Africa.