Changing identifications and alliances in North-East Africa

Author(s)

• Schlee, Günther
• Watson, Elizabeth E.

Bibliographic Information

Changing identifications and alliances in North-East Africa

edited by Günther Schlee and Elizabeth E. Watson

（Integration and conflict studies / Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, v. 2）

Berghahn Books, 2014

• v. 1 : pbk

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-252) and index

Contents of Works

• Ethiopia and Kenya

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Forms of group identity play a prominent role in everyday lives and politics in northeast Africa. Case studies from Sudan, Ethiopia, Uganda, and Kenya illustrate the way that identities are formed and change over time, and how local, national, and international politics are interwoven. Specific attention is paid to the impact of modern weaponry, new technologies, religious conversion, food and land shortages, international borders, civil war, and displacement on group identities. Drawing on the expertise of anthropologists, historians and geographers, these volumes provide a significant account of a society profoundly shaped by identity politics and contribute to a better understanding of the nature of conflict and war, and forms of alliance and peacemaking, thus providing a comprehensive portrait of this troubled region.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations List of Maps, Figures and Tables List of Abbreviations Introduction Gunther Schlee Space and Time: Introduction to the Geography and Political History Gunther Schlee and Elizabeth E. Watson Part I. Identification and Insecurity in the Lower Omo Valley 1. The Fate of the Suri: Conflict and Group Tension on the South-West Ethiopian Frontier Jon Abbink 2. Resistance and Bravery: On Social Meanings of Guns in South-West Ethiopia Ken Masuda 3. Modernization in the Lower Omo Valley and Adjacent Marches of Eastern Equatoria, Sudan: 1991-2000 Serge Tornay Part II. Institutions of Identification and Networks of Alliance among Rift Valley Agriculturalists 4. Burji: Versatile by Tradition Hermann Amborn 5. The Significance of the Oral Traditions of the Burji for Perceiving and Shaping their Inter-ethnic Relations Alexander Kellner 6. Mobility, Knowledge and Power: Craftsmen in the Borderland Hermann Amborn Part III. Land, Identification and the State in Ethiopia 7. 'We Have Been Sold': Competing with the State and Dealing with Others Tadesse Wolde Gossa 8. Identity, Encroachment and Ethnic Relations: the Gumuz and their Neighbours in North-Western Ethiopia Wolde-Selassie Abbute 9. Debates over Culture in Konso since Decentralization (1991) Elizabeth E. Watson 10. Changing Alliances of Guji-Oromo and their Neighbours: State Policies and Local Factors Taddesse Berisso Part IV. Pastoralists in the Kenya-Ethiopia Borderlands 11. Changing Alliances among the Boran, Garre and Gabra in Northern Kenya and Southern Ethiopia Gunther Schlee 12. Roads to Nowhere: Nomadic Understandings of Space and Ethnicity John C. Wood Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index

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• NCID: BC02482840
• ISBN:
  • 9781782383291
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New York
• Pages/Volumes: xii, 260 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • DC22 : 305.800963
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Group identity -- Africa, Northeast
  • LCSH : Ethnicity -- Africa, Northeast
  • LCSH : Africa, Northeast -- Ethnic relations
  • LCSH : Africa, Northeast -- Social conditions
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BB01222213