Blood, land, and sex
Subtitle: legal and political pluralism in Eritrea
By: Lyda Favali and Roy Pateman.
Contributors: Pateman, Roy.
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Bloomington, IN
Language: eng
Number of pages: 352
Subjects: Legal polycentricity -- Eritrea.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 307-333) and index.
Table of contents: title: Facts and ideas : the struggle for power and legitimacy; title: From tradition to globalization; title: Changing leadership, unchanging law; title: The transitional period and attempts at legal reform; title: From blood feud and blood money to the state settlement of murder cases; title: Land tenure on the highland plateau; title: Land disputes and conflict resolution; title: The virgin, the wife, the spinster, and the concubine : gender roles and gender relations; title: Female genital mutilation : symbol, tradition, or survival?; title: Creating space in a changing world for traditional and religious law.