The Wheel of Autonomy

Rhetoric and Ethnicity in the Omo Valley
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-78533-950-9
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 18, 308 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 599 g

Reihe: Integration and Conflict Studies

How do the Kara, a small population residing on the eastern bank of the Omo River in southern Ethiopia, manage to be neither annexed nor exterminated by any of the larger groups that surround them? Through the theoretical lens of rhetoric, this book offers an interactionalist analysis of how the Kara negotiate ethnic and non-ethnic differences among themselves, the relations with their various neighbors, and eventually their integration in the Ethiopian state. The model of the “Wheel of Autonomy” captures the interplay of distinction, agency and autonomy that drives these dynamics and offers an innovative perspective on social relations.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Girke, Felix

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprechwissenschaft, Rhetorik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction: How Do They Do It?

Chapter 1. A Rhetorical Approach to Groups and Ethnicity

Chapter 2. Categories of Being Kara

Chapter 3. Ethnicity within Kara: The Demotion of the Bogudo

Chapter 4. The Moguji: All That Is Not Kara

Chapter 5. The Schism and Other Predicaments of the Moguji

Chapter 6. The Regional Other in the Cultural Neighbourhood

Chapter 7. South Omo in Kara Terms

Chapter 8. The Cleverness of the Kara

Chapter 9. Seeing like a Tribe

Conclusion

Glossary of Non-English Terms

Glossary of Places and People

References

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Girke, Felix
Felix Girke is a social/cultural anthropologist and a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Konstanz, Germany. His publications include the edited volumes Ethiopian Images of Self and Other (UVHW, 2014) and The Rhetorical Emergence of Culture (Berghahn Books, 2011). He currently studies the politics of cultural heritage in Myanmar.

Felix Girke is a social/cultural anthropologist and a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Konstanz, Germany. His publications include the edited volumes Ethiopian Images of Self and Other (UVHW, 2014) and The Rhetorical Emergence of Culture (Berghahn Books, 2011). He currently studies the politics of cultural heritage in Myanmar.