A Country Called Somalia: Culture, Language and Society of a Vanishing State

Volume of the "Studi Somali" series, a collection of papers authored by Somali studies scholars, Festschrift for Prof. Annarita Puglielli. It contains: Roberto Ajello, Anthroponyms in the Gizey society (N-E Cameroon); Giorgio Banti, Internally-headed relative clauses in literary Somali?; Lucyna Gebert, Stative, iterative, habitual: Slavic-Somali parallels; John Saeed, A pragmatic account of the remote definite article in Somali; Marco Svolacchia, Phonological pitfalls in the business of getting a living: the strange case of Somali stops; Abdulaziz Sharif Aden, Gianfranco Tarsitani, Halima Mohamed Nur, Ranieri Guerra, Somali female domestic worker's social and health problems in Italy; Milena Bandiera, Western science: A case of transcultural university propaedeutics; Cristina Ali Farah, Shabeelnaagood' and the social role of women in Somali society. An Italian translation offered to Annarita; Abdalla Omar Mansur, The tree of wisdom: tradition and modernity; Massimo Squillacciotti, Instruction in anthropology between ethnographic and ethnolinguistic research; Barbara Turchetta, Let the children play: Ethnoliguistic notes on Somali games.