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In Somali political culture, clan solidarity is represented by the evocative symbols of blood and bone -- immutable natural endowments inherent in kinship traced through the father in the male line. Blood And Bone explores the extraordinary persistence and resilience of these age-old... read more

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This familiar passage provides a salutary reminder that awareness of the dangers of the misuse of ethnographic information is scarcely as novel a hazard a some of the "radical" critics of Anthropology appear to think.

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  1. I. M. Lewis (Author)
 

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