ISBN:
1282628097
,
9781845456030
,
9781282628090
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xii, 260 p.)
,
ill
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Integration and conflict studies v. 2
Parallel Title:
Print version Changing Identifications and Alliances in North-east Africa, 1 : Ethiopia and Kenya
DDC:
305.800963
Keywords:
Group identity
;
Ethnicity
;
Africa, Northeast Social conditions
;
Africa, Northeast Ethnic relations
Abstract:
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 accoun
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-252) and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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