ISBN:
9781782383291
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (272 p)
Series Statement:
Integration and Conflict Studies
Parallel Title:
Print version Changing Identifications And Alliances In North-east Africa : Volume I: Ethiopia and Kenya
DDC:
305.800963
Keywords:
Electronic books
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 accou
Description / Table of Contents:
Title page-Chaning Identifications and Alliances in North-East Africa; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Maps, Figures and Tables; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; Space and Time: Introduction to the Geography and Political History; Part I-Identification and Insecurity in the Lower Omo Valley; Chapter 1-The Fate of the Suri; Chapter 2-Resistance and Bravery; Chapter 3-Modernization in the Lower Omo Vally and Adjacent Marches of Eastern Equatoria Sudan:1991-2000; Part II-Institutions of Identification and Networks of Alliance among Rift Valley Agriculturalists
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 4-Burji: Versatile by TraditionChapter 5-The Significance of the Oral Traditions of the Burji for Perceiving and Shaping their Inter-ethic Relations; Chapter 6-Mobility, knowledge and Power: Craftsmen in the Borderland; Part III-Land, Identification and the State in Ethiopia; Chpater 7-'We Have Been Sold': Competing with the State and Dealling with Others; Chapter 8-Identity, Encroachment and Ethnic Relations: the Gumuz and their Neighbours in North-Western Ethiopia; Chapter 9-Debates over Culture in Konso Since Decentralization (1991)
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 10-Changing Alliances of Guji-Oromo and their Neighbours: State Policies and Local FactorsPart IV-Pastoralists in the Kenya-Ethiopia Borderlands; Chapter 11-Changing Alliances among the Boran, Garre and Gabra in Northern Kenya and Southern Ethiopia; Chapte 12-Roads to Nowhere: Nomadic Understadings of Space and Ethnicity; Bibliography; Notes on Contributors; Index
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