ISBN:
9781782383314
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (280 p)
Series Statement:
Integration and Conflict Studies
Parallel Title:
Print version Changing Identifications And Alliances In North-east Africa : Volume II: Sudan, Uganda, and the Ethiopia-Sudan Borderlands
DDC:
305.800963
Keywords:
Electronic books
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
Description / Table of Contents:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
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
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
Permalink
