Changing Identifications and Alliances in North-east Africa: Volume II: Sudan, Uganda, and the Ethiopia-Sudan BorderlandsGünther Schlee, Elizabeth E. Watson 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. |
Contents
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Chapter 1The Nuer Civil Wars | 31 |
Chapter 2Peace and Puzzlement | 49 |
Chapter 3The Experience of Violence and Pastoralist Identity in Southern Karamoja | 73 |
Part IIPolitics of Kinship and Marriage Sudana and Northern Kenya | 101 |
Chapter 4Endogamy and Alliance in Northern Sudan | 103 |
Chapter 5Descent and Descent Ideologies | 117 |
Chapter 7Mbororo Migrations from Sudan into Ethiopia | 157 |
Part IVDisplacement Refuge and Identification | 179 |
Chapter 8Conflict and Identity Politics | 181 |
Chapter 9The Cultural Resilience in Nuer Conversion and a Capitalist Missionary | 205 |
Chapter 10Changing Identifications among the Pari Refugees in Kakuma | 219 |
Chapter 11Crossing Points | 235 |
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Notes on Contributors | 263 |