Blood, land, and sex [electronic resource] : legal and political pluralism in Eritrea / Lyda Favali and Roy Pateman.

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.