Mai Weini, a Highland Village in Eritrea
Title | Mai Weini, a Highland Village in Eritrea PDF eBook |
Author | Kjetil Tronvoll |
Publisher | The Red Sea Press |
Total Pages | 342 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781569020593 |
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.
Mai Weini, a Village in Highland Eritrea
Title | Mai Weini, a Village in Highland Eritrea PDF eBook |
Author | Kjetil Tronvoll |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 363 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | Land tenure |
ISBN |
Eritrea
Title | Eritrea PDF eBook |
Author | Mussie Tesfagiorgis G. Ph.D. |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | 534 |
Release | 2010-10-29 |
Genre | History |
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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.
Blood, Land, and Sex
Title | Blood, Land, and Sex PDF eBook |
Author | Lyda Favali |
Publisher | Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | 371 |
Release | 2003-06-18 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0253109841 |
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.
Historical Dictionary of Eritrea
Title | Historical Dictionary of Eritrea PDF eBook |
Author | Dan Connell |
Publisher | Scarecrow Press |
Total Pages | 689 |
Release | 2010-10-14 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0810875055 |
The history of Eritrea is told in this reference through a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and over 500 cross-referenced dictionary entries on significant persons, events, places, organizations, and other aspects of Eritrea's history from the earliest times to the present. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Eritrea.
The African Garrison State
Title | The African Garrison State PDF eBook |
Author | Kjetil Tronvoll |
Publisher | Boydell & Brewer Ltd |
Total Pages | 226 |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1847010695 |
When Eritrea gained independence in 1991, hopes were high for its transformation. In two decades, however, it became one of the most repressive in the world, effectively a militarised "garrison state". This comprehensive and detailed analysis examines how the prospects for democracy in the new state turned to ashes, reviewing its development, and in particular the loss of human rights and the state's political organisation. Beginning with judicial development in independent Eritrea, subsequent chapters scrutinise the rule of law and the court system; the hobbled process of democratisation, and the curtailment of civil society; the Eritrean prison system and everyday life of detention and disappearances; and the situation of minorities in the country, first in general terms and then through exploration of a case study of the Kunama ethnic group. While the situation is bleak, it is not without hope, however: the conclusion focuses on opposition to the current regime, and offers scenarios of regime change and how the coming of a second republic may yet reconfigure Eritrea politically. Kjetil Tronvoll is Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies at Bjoerknes College, founding and senior partner of the International Law and Policy Institute, Oslo, and a former Professor of Human Rights at the University of Oslo; Daniel R. Mekonnen is Senior Legal Advisor, International Law and Policy Institute, Oslo, and former Judge of the Zoba Maekel Provincial Court in Eritrea.
Understanding Eritrea
Title | Understanding Eritrea PDF eBook |
Author | Martin Plaut |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | 273 |
Release | 2017-02-01 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0190694769 |
The most secretive, repressive state in Africa is hemorrhaging its citizens. In some months as many Eritreans as Syrians arrive on European shores, yet the country is not convulsed by civil war. Young men and women risk all to escape. Many do not survive - their bones littering the Sahara; their bodies floating in the Mediterranean. Still they flee, to avoid permanent military service and a future without hope. As the United Nations reported: 'Thousands of conscripts are subjected to forced labor that effectively abuses, exploits and enslaves them for years.' Eritreans fought for their freedom from Ethiopia for thirty years, only to have their revered leader turn on his own people. Independent since 1993, the country has no constitution and no parliament. No budget has ever been published. Elections have never been held and opponents languish in jail. International organizations find it next to impossible to work in the country. Nor is it just a domestic issue. By supporting armed insurrection in neighboring states it has destabilized the Horn of Africa. Eritrea is involved in the Yemeni civil war, while the regime backs rebel movements in Somalia, Ethiopia and Djibouti. This book tells the untold story of how this tiny nation became a world pariah.