ISBN:
9781845459635
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (1 online resource (280 p.))
Edition:
1 (Online-Ausg.)
Series Statement:
Integration and Conflict Studies v.3
Series Statement:
EBL-Schweitzer
DDC:
305.800963
Keywords:
Africa, Northeast -- Ethnic relations
;
Ethnicity -- Africa, Northeast
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Group identity -- Africa, Northeast
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Abstract:
Title page-Changing Identifications and Alliances in North-East Africa; Contents; List of Maps, Plates, Figures and Tables; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; Part I-Raiding, War and Peace, Sudan and Northern Uganda; Chapter 1-The Nuer Civil Wars; Chapter 2-Peace and Puzzlement; Chapter 3-The Experience of Violence and Pastoralist Identity in Southern Karamoja; Part II-Politics of Kinship and Marriage, Sudana and Northern Kenya; Chapter 4-Endogamy and Alliance in Northern Sudan; Chapter 5-Descent and Descent Ideologies
Abstract:
Part III-Encounters with Modernity, Sudan and Sudan-Ethiopia BorderlandsChapter 6-The Rise and Decline of Lorry Driving in the Fallata Migrant Community of Maiurno on the Blue Nile; Chapter 7-Mbororo Migrations from Sudan into Ethiopia; Part IV-Displacement, Refuge and Identification; Chapter 8-Conflict and Identity Politics; Chapter 9-The Cultural Resilience in Nuer Conversion and a 'Capitalist Missionary'; Chapter 10-Changing Identifications among the Pari Refugees in Kakuma; Chapter 11-Crossing Points; Bibliography; Notes on Contributors; Index
Abstract:
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
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