Networks of Dissolution: Somalia UndoneRoutledge, 2019 M03 13 - 256 pages In this penetrating and timely book, Anna Simons documents Somalia's impending slide toward anarchy. How do people react to a failing yet still repressive government? What do they do when the banks run out of cash? How do they cope with unprecedented uncertainty? These are some of the questions Simons addresses as she introduces the reader to Somal |
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... official U.S. citizens) graciously suffered my continual questions, and Ahmed Yusuf Farah and Mohamed Hamud Sheekh at SOMAC (Somali Academy) always helped me pursue anthropology. Veronica Culhane, Deirdre LaPin, Glenn Howze, and Jim ...
... official U.S. citizens) graciously suffered my continual questions, and Ahmed Yusuf Farah and Mohamed Hamud Sheekh at SOMAC (Somali Academy) always helped me pursue anthropology. Veronica Culhane, Deirdre LaPin, Glenn Howze, and Jim ...
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... official Americans" received, but the official company I did keep was low-echelon: servicemen and USAID (United States Agency for International Development) contract workers. Thus, with most expatriates I generally tried to keep my ...
... official Americans" received, but the official company I did keep was low-echelon: servicemen and USAID (United States Agency for International Development) contract workers. Thus, with most expatriates I generally tried to keep my ...
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... through. Second, and connected to the lack of real interest in Somalia, was the lack of desire on the part of most latter-day expatriates to read about Somalis. Unlike colonial officials who assiduously read (and in their.
... through. Second, and connected to the lack of real interest in Somalia, was the lack of desire on the part of most latter-day expatriates to read about Somalis. Unlike colonial officials who assiduously read (and in their.
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Somalia Undone Anna Simons. Somalis. Unlike colonial officials who assiduously read (and in their writing seem as if they were quoting from) their predecessors' accounts, few modern-day visitors seemed to have learned much of anything ...
Somalia Undone Anna Simons. Somalis. Unlike colonial officials who assiduously read (and in their writing seem as if they were quoting from) their predecessors' accounts, few modern-day visitors seemed to have learned much of anything ...
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... official currency rate, or whichever government had paid their salary). Thus, having managed to derive some unforseen benefit from having been in Somalia they were usually only too happy to pass their methods of having done so on, since ...
... official currency rate, or whichever government had paid their salary). Thus, having managed to derive some unforseen benefit from having been in Somalia they were usually only too happy to pass their methods of having done so on, since ...
Contents
PART TWO HISTORIES | |
PART THREE CHRONOLOGY 19881989 | |
PART FOUR PASTORAL IDEOLOGY AND URBAN | |
Pastoral Principles | |
Ties | |
Moralities | |
Tribalism | |
PART FIVE FAMILY TO FAMILY | |
A Rigorous Ending | |
No Ending | |
Bibliography | |
About the Book and Author | |
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