Favali, Lyda, 1969-

Blood, land, and sex legal and political pluralism in Eritrea / [electronic resource] : Lyda Favali and Roy Pateman. - Bloomington, IN : Indiana University Press, c2003. - xviii, 371 p.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Facts and ideas : the struggle for power and legitimacy -- From tradition to globalization -- Changing leadership, unchanging law -- The transitional period and attempts at legal reform -- From blood feud and blood money to the state settlement of murder cases -- Land tenure on the highland plateau -- Land disputes and conflict resolution -- The virgin, the wife, the spinster, and the concubine : gender roles and gender relations -- Female genital mutilation : symbol, tradition, or survival? -- Creating space in a changing world for traditional and religious law.


Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2009.
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Legal polycentricity--Eritrea.


Eritrea--Politics and government.


Electronic books.

KRN48.3 / .F38 2003eb

340.5/2635