The invention of Somalia
By: edited by Ali Jimale Ahmed.
Contributors: Ahmed, Ali Jimale.
Publisher: Red Sea Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Lawrenceville, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 265
Subjects: Clans -- Somalia.; Somalia -- Politics and government.; Somalia -- Ethnic relations.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Islam in Somali History: Fact and Fiction / Mohamed Haji Mukhtar; title: Aspects of the Benadir Cultural History: The Case of the Bravan Ulama / Mohamed M. Kassim; title: The Invention of Gosha: Slavery, Colonialism, and Stigma in Somali History / Catherine Besteman; title: Camels, Intellectuals, Origins, and Dance in the Invention of Somalia: A Commentary / Irving Leonard Markovitz; title: The Predicament of the Somali Studies / Ahmed Qassim Ali; title: The Somali Origin: Myth or Reality / Abdi M. Kusow; title: Contrary to a Nation: The Cancer of the Somali State / Abdalla Omar Mansur; title: The Nature of the Somali Clan System / Abdalla Omar Mansur; title: "Daybreak is Near, Won't You Become Sour?" Going Beyond the Current Rhetoric in Somali Studies / Ali Jimale Ahmed; title: Finely Etched Chattel: The Invention of a Somali Woman / Christine Choi Ahmed [Christine A. Saidi]; title: Identity, Dance and Islam Among People with Bantu Origins in Riverine Areas of Somalia / Francesca Declich.; title: On Critiques of the Invention of Somalia / Edward Alpers; title: The Eastern Horn of Africa, 1000 B.C. to 1400 A.D.: The Historical Roots / Christopher Ehret; title: Appendix 1: Relationships of Eastern Omo-Tana (Soomaali Languages)