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Author Favali, Lyda, 1969-

Title Blood, land, and sex : legal and political pluralism in Eritrea / Lyda Favali and Roy Pateman
Published Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2003

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 352 pages)
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
Summary In Eritrea, state, traditional, and religious laws equally prevail, but any of these legal systems may be put into play depending upon the individual or individuals involved in a legal dispute. Because of conflicting laws, it has been difficult for Eritreans to come to a consensus on what constitutes their legal system. In Blood, Land, and Sex, Lyda Favali and Roy Pateman examine the roles of the state, ethnic groups, religious groups, and the international community in several key areas of Eritrean law - blood feud or murder, land tenure, and gender relations (marriage, prostitution, rape)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
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Subject Legal polycentricity -- Eritrea
LAW -- Customary.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- Comparative.
Legal polycentricity
Eritrea
Form Electronic book
Author Pateman, Roy.
ISBN 0253109841
9780253109842
0253342058
9780253342058
0253215773
9780253215772
0253101182
9780253101181
1282072102
9781282072107
9786612072109
6612072105