Clan and Superclan: Loyalty, Identity and Community in Law and Practice
1996; Cambridge University Press; Volume: 90; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/2204063
ISSN2161-7953
Autores Tópico(s)Multiculturalism, Politics, Migration, Gender
ResumoThere are many countries in our blood, aren’t there, but only one person. Would the world be in the mess it is if we were loyal to love and not to countries? —Graham Greene, Our Man in Havana In Bosnia, the vaunted ideal—a multivariegated state of Muslims, Orthodox Serbs and Catholic Croats living in a tolerant civil society—has virtually been extinguished by a torrent of blood and tears. In Belgium, itself a less than two-hundred-year-old product of Catholic rebellion against Orange-Protestant Holland, the Flemish Catholics of Flanders have all but parted ways with the French Catholics of Walloonia, leaving an ethnically stressed Brussels paradoxically ensconced as capital of a “United Europe.” What is going on here, or in Somalia, Slovakia, Quebec and Kazakhstan?
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