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The Shaping of Somali Society: Reconstructing the History of a Pastoral People, 1600-1900

Frederick C. Gamst, +1 more
- 22 Jan 1984 - 
- Vol. 31, Iss: 3, pp 233
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This article is published in Ethnohistory.The article was published on 1984-01-22. It has received 91 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Somali.

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New issues in refugee research

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors found that significant progress has been made overall in developing a refugee policy in Eurasia (which was defined in this study as the countries comprising the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS): Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, Russia and Ukraine/Kazakhstan, Kyrgystan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan; and the Central European countries of Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Romania, Poland, Slovak Republic and Slovenia).
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Education in Somalia: history, destruction, and calls for reconstruction

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The State of Ethnohistory

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Early Trends toward Class Stratification: Chaos, Common Property, and Flood Recession Agriculture

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that early stratification occurred long before population pressure reached significant levels and well before regional trade, extensive storage capacity, or elaborate water-management infrastructure became economically significant.
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Representing Violence and 'Othering' Somalia

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present an alternative understanding to the prevailing portrait of Somali culture and history that was presented to and consumed by the U.S. public during the early 1990s.
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