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. 3）

Berghahn Books, 2014

• v. 2 : pbk

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-262) and index

Contents of Works

• Sudan, Uganda and the Ethiopia-Sudan Borderlands

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Forms of group identity play a prominent role in everyday lives and politics in north-east Africa. These volumes provide an interdisciplinary account of the nature and significance of ethnic, religious, and national identity in north-east 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 Maps, Plates, Figures and Tables List of Abbreviations Introduction Elizabeth E. Watson and Gunther Schlee Part I. Raiding, War and Peace, Sudan and Northern Uganda 1. The Nuer Civil Wars Douglas H. Johnson 2. Peace and Puzzlement: Grass-roots Peace Initiatives between the Nuer and Dinka of South Sudan Sharon Elaine Hutchinson 3. The Experience of Violence and Pastoralist Identity in Southern Karamoja Sandra Gray Part II. Politics of Kinship and Marriage, Sudan and Northern Kenya 4. Endogamy and Alliance in Northern Sudan Janice Boddy 5. Descent and Descent Ideologies: The Blue Nile Area (Sudan) and Northern Kenya Compared Gunther Schlee Part III. Encounters with Modernity, Sudan and Sudan-Ethiopia Borderlands 6. The Rise and Decline of Lorry Driving in the Fallata Migrant Community of Maiurno on the Blue Nile Al-Amin Abu-Manga 7. Mbororo (Fulbe) Migrations from Sudan into Ethiopia Dereje Feyissa and Gunther Schlee Part IV. Displacement, Refuge and Identification 8. Conflict and Identity Politics: The Case of Anywaa-Nuer Relations in Gambela, Western Ethiopia Dereje Feyissa 9. The Cultural Resilience in Nuer Conversion and a 'Capitalist Missionary' Christiane Falge 10. Changing Identifications among the Pari Refugees in Kakuma Eisei Kurimoto 11. Crossing Points: Journeys of Transformation on the Sudan-Ethiopian Border Wendy James Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index

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Details

• NCID: BC1700317X
• ISBN:
  • 9781782383314
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New York
• Pages/Volumes: x, 270 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