Divine Fertility: The Continuity in Transformation of an Ideology of Sacred Kinship in Northeast Africa

ISBN-13: 9781138368507 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 372 str.

Sada Mire

Opis

This book explores the impact of indigenous ideology and thought on everyday life in Northeast Africa. It shows that for millennia complex indigenous institutions have bound people together beyond the labels of Christianity and Islam; they have sustained peace through cultural exchange and tolerance, if not always complete acceptance.

O autorze

Sada Mire is an award-winning Swedish-Somali archaeologist with a PhD from UCL’s Institute of Archaeology. She is founder and executive director of Horn Heritage Organisation, an archaeology and heritage research institution with offices in the Horn of Africa and The Netherlands. Mire was the founding director of Somaliland’s Department of Archaeology until 2012 and since then has held academic positions at a several European universities including Leiden University. She has received a number of honours for her work, including being selected for lists such as New Scientist’s "Most Inspiring Women in Science of All Times" in 2016 and The Hay Festival of Literature and Arts’ list of 30 Global Thinkers and Writers. Mire’s popular contributions as well as commissioned features on her work appear regularly in the international media, such as the BBC, The Guardian, CNN and Channel Four, UK. At the moment, she is working on a book on Somali Heritage and Identity Conflicts.