Changing Identifications and Alliances in North-east Africa

Volume I: Ethiopia and Kenya
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-78238-329-1
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 2, 272 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 402 g

Reihe: Integration and Conflict Studies

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Schlee, Günther

Watson, Elizabeth E.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Politische Ethnologie, Recht, Organisation, Identität

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

List of Maps, Figures and Tables

List of Abbreviations

Introduction

Günther Schlee

Space and Time: Introduction to the Geography and Political History

Günther 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

Günther Schlee

12. Roads to Nowhere: Nomadic Understandings of Space and Ethnicity

John C. Wood

Bibliography

Notes on Contributors

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Watson, Elizabeth E.
Elizabeth E. Watson is a Lecturer in the Department of Geography at the University of Cambridge. Recent publications include: 'Local Community, Legitimacy, and Cultural Authenticity in Postconflict Natural Resource Management: Ethiopia and Mozambique’ in Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 2006 (with R. Black), and 'Making a Living in the Post-Socialist Periphery: Konso, Ethiopia' in Africa, 2006.

Schlee, Günther
Günther Schlee is currently the director of the Department of Integration and Conflict at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. His publications include Identities on the Move: Clanship and Pastoralism in Northern Kenya (International African Institute, 1989), How Enemies are Made (Berghahn, 2008), Rendille Proverbs in their Social and Legal Context (with Karaba Sahado) and Boran Proverbs in their Cultural Context (with Abdullahi Shongolo) (both Cologne: Rüdiger Köppe).

Günther Schlee is currently the director of the Department of Integration and Conflict at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. His publications include Identities on the Move: Clanship and Pastoralism in Northern Kenya (International African Institute, 1989), How Enemies are Made (Berghahn, 2008), Rendille Proverbs in their Social and Legal Context (with Karaba Sahado) and Boran Proverbs in their Cultural Context (with Abdullahi Shongolo) (both Cologne: Rüdiger Köppe).