Blood, land, and sex : legal and political pluralism in Eritrea / / Lyda Favali and Roy Pateman.

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Year of Publication:2003
Language:English
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Physical Description:xviii, 371 p.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.