War and Survival in Sudan's Frontierlands

Voices from the Blue Nile
Erscheinungsjahr 2007
ISBN: 978-0-19-929867-9
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 368 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 650 g

This book completes a trilogy by the anthropologist Wendy James. It is a case study of how the Uduk-speaking people, originally from the Blue Nile region between the 'north' and the 'south' of Sudan, have been caught up in and displaced by a generation of civil war. Some have responded by defending their nation, others by joining the armed resistance of the Sudan People's Liberation Army, and yet others eventually finding security as international refugees in Ethiopia, and even further afield in countries such as the USA. Sudan's peace agreement of 2005 leaves much uncertainty for the future of the whole country, as conflict still rages in Darfur. The Uduk case shows how people who once lived together now try to maintain links across borders and even continents through modern communications, and where possible recreate their 'traditional' forms of story-telling, music, and song.

Autoren/Hrsg.

James, Wendy

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Ethnolinguistik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Gewalt Terrorismus, Religiöser Fundamentalismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Physische Anthropologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Afrikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Militärgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Ethnographie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Militärwesen Nationale und Internationale Sicherheits- und Verteidigungspolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Historical Introduction: The Blue Nile Borderlands

- Part One: The Struggles for Kurmuk and for Chali

- 1: Projects, Targets, and the Recruitment of the People

- 2: Chali: Rooting up a Sleepy Village

- 3: Chali: Front-line Garrison

- Part Two: The Long Road, 1987-93

- 4: Initial Refuge at Assosa and Why it Failed

- 5: Blue Nile South: Ethiopian Turmoil, SPLA-protection, 1990-92

- 6: The SPLA Split: Refugees on the Edge

- 7: Escape Bac to the New Ethiopia, 1992-3

- Part Three: Beyond Words

- 8: Safe Haven? Bonga Refugee Scheme

- 9: Dance, Music, and Poetry

- 10: Sermons, Visions, and Dreams

- 11: Reunions, Retrospectives, and Ironies

- Epilogue

- Current and Future Agendas

- Appendix: Time Chart

Über Autor(innen)

Wendy James is Professor Emeritus of Social Anthropology in the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of St. Cross College. She has carried out research in the Sudan and Ethiopia intermittently over four decades, and has long-standing academic links with universities and other institutions in the region of north-eastern Africa. She is a Fellow of the British Academy and has served as President of the Royal Anthropological Institute. She has published widely not only on Africa but on the history and current scope of anthropology, as well as acting on various occasions as a consultant to the UN and associated agencies. She was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Copenhagen in 2005.