Blood, Land, and Sex
Blood, Land, and Sex

Author: Lyda Favali

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2003-06-18

Total Pages: 371

ISBN-13: 0253109841

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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, gender relations (marriage, prostitution, rape), and female genital surgery. Favali and Pateman explore the intersections of the various laws and discuss how change can be brought to communities where legal ambiguity prevails, often to the grave harm of women and other powerless individuals. This significant book focuses on how Eritrea and other newly emerging democracies might build pluralist legal systems that will be acceptable to an ethnically and religiously diverse population.

Mai Weini, a Highland Village in Eritrea
Mai Weini, a Highland Village in Eritrea

Author: Kjetil Tronvoll

Publisher: The Red Sea Press

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 342

ISBN-13: 9781569020593

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Written by the first anthropologist to enter Eritrea after the war, this study is an ethnographic account which explores the social organisation of a remote Tigrayan-speaking highland community and the livelihood of its peasants.

Property Rights & Political Development in Ethiopia & Eritrea, 1941-74
Property Rights & Political Development in Ethiopia & Eritrea, 1941-74

Author: Sandra Fullerton Joireman

Publisher: James Currey

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13:

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This study traces three different land tenure systems in Ethiopia and Eritrea over a 30-year period from the end of Italian occupation to the end of imperial rule. It examines existing theories of changing property rights in the context of the developing world, and should interest NGOs.

Eritrea
Eritrea

Author: Mussie Tesfagiorgis G. Ph.D.

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2010-10-29

Total Pages: 453

ISBN-13: 1598842323

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This authoritative overview serves as a comprehensive resource on Eritrea's history, politics, economy, society, and culture. Located in eastern Africa, bordering the Red Sea between Djibouti and Sudan, Eritrea is a poor but developing East African country, the capital of which is Asmara. Formerly a province of Ethiopia, Eritrea became independent on May 24, 1993, following a 30-year struggle that culminated in a referendum vote for independence. Written materials on most aspects of Eritrean history and culture are quite scarce. Eritrea fills that gap with an exhaustive, thematically organized overview. It examines Eritrean geography, the history of Eritrea since the ancient period, and the government, politics, economy, society, cultures, and people of the modern nation. Though based largely on the documentary record, the book also recognizes the value of oral history among the people of Eritrea and incorporates that history as well. Leading sources are quoted at length to provide analysis and perspective.