Changing Identifications and Alliances in North-east Africa

Zusatztext " With contributions by many of the leading scholars of the region! these volumes convey both the distinctiveness of these diverse communities and their mutual relationships and reciprocal influences! thus providing an analytical handbook to this important region. " · African Studies Review "? both theoretically and ethnographically! these volumes present a major contribution to contemporary anthropology! as well as social sciences in general. " · Ethnos: Journal of Anthropology "? an excellent introduction to the region and its interconnected peoples! as well as a useful guide to ethnographical approaches applied by international scholarship. ... It brings sharp insights into the pragmatism of 'traditional identities' as small-scale societies cope - mostly remarkably successfully - with historical values! the vicissitudes of daily life! and the deep but varying impact of modern states that claim them as 'subject-citizens.' ... This is a really worthwhile volume with much to offer at first reading! and as a future reference source of ethnographic description of great historical value." · Cedric Barnes ! SOAS/Africa Research Group! Foreign and Commonwealth Office Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. - an excellent introduction to the region and its interconnected peoples, as well as a useful guide to ethnographical approaches applied by international scholarship. ... It brings sharp insights into the pragmatism of 'traditional identities' as small-scale societies cope - mostly remarkably successfully - with historical values, the vicissitudes of daily life, and the deep but varying impact of modern states that claim them as 'subject-citizens.' ... This is a really worthwhile volume with much to offer at first reading, and as a future reference source of ethnographic description of great historical value.A" * Cedric Barnes, SOAS/Africa Research Group, Foreign and Commonwealth Office Zusammenfassung 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. 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 Par...

With contributions by many of the leading scholars of the region, these volumes convey both the distinctiveness of these diverse communities and their mutual relationships and reciprocal influences, thus providing an analytical handbook to this important region. · African Studies Review both theoretically and ethnographically, these volumes present a major contribution to contemporary anthropology, as well as social sciences in general. · Ethnos: Journal of Anthropology an excellent introduction to the region and its interconnected peoples, as well as a useful guide to ethnographical approaches applied by international scholarship. ... It brings sharp insights into the pragmatism of 'traditional identities' as small-scale societies cope - mostly remarkably successfully - with historical values, the vicissitudes of daily life, and the deep but varying impact of modern states that claim them as 'subject-citizens.' ... This is a really worthwhile volume with much to offer at first reading, and as a future reference source of ethnographic description of great historical value. · Cedric Barnes, SOAS/Africa Research Group, Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Autorentext
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.

Klappentext
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.

Inhalt
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: 19912000
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-Selass…

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