I. M. Lewis, A Pastoral Democracy: a study of pastoralism and politics among the northern Somali of the Horn of Africa, third edition. (book review)

I. M. LEWIS, A Pastoral Democracy: a study of pastoralism and politics among the northern Somali of the Horn of Africa, third edition. Classics in African Anthropology series. Oxford: James Currey, with the International African Institute, 1999, 370 pp., 14.95 [pounds sterling], ISBN 0 85255 280 7 (paperback).

That the major strength of a scholarly work is at the same time its central weakness is not uncommon, especially in the case of studies we have come to regard as `classics', as typifying a whole field of studies at a particular point in time. It is therefore not surprising ...

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