Author | Favali, Lyda, 1969- |
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Title | Blood, land, and sex [electronic resource] : legal and political pluralism in Eritrea / Lyda Favali and Roy Pateman |
Imprint | Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2003 |
Connect to | http://www.netLibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=92046 |
Descript | xvi, 352 p |
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