Changing Identifications and Alliances in North-East Africa

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Günther Schlee, Elizabeth E. Watson
Berghahn Books, 2009 - Political Science - 260 pages

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.

 

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Contents

Introduction
1
Introduction to the Geography and Political History
15
Conflict and Group Tension on the SouthWest
35
On Social Meanings of Guns in SouthWest
53
Modernization in the Lower Omo Valley and Adjacent Marches of
77
Institutions of Identification and Networks of Alliance among
87
Competing with the State and Dealing with
135
Debates over Culture in Konso since Decentralization 1991
173
State Policies
191
Changing Alliances among the Boran Garre and Gabra in Northern
203
Nomadic Understandings of Space and Ethnicity
225
Bibliography
241
Notes on Contributors
253
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About the author (2009)

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). 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.

Bibliographic information

TitleChanging Identifications and Alliances in North-East Africa
Berghahn Series
Changing Identifications and Alliances in North-East Africa, Elizabeth E. Watson
G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Series
Integration and conflict studies
EditorsGünther Schlee, Elizabeth E. Watson
Editionillustrated
PublisherBerghahn Books, 2009
ISBN1845456033, 9781845456030
Length260 pages
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