ISBN:
978-3-643-90534-5
Language:
English
Pages:
VI, 257 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
Series Statement:
Afrikanische Studien 53
Keywords:
Äthiopien Ethnizität
;
Identität
;
Sozialer Status
;
Sozialer Wandel
;
Frau und sozialer Status
;
Materielle Kultur
;
Oromo
;
Rastafari
;
Bashada
;
Ba'iso
;
Nyangatom
;
Maale
;
Dasanetch
;
Konso
;
Beziehungen, interethnische
;
Addis Abeba 〈Äthiopien〉
;
South Omo 〈Äthiopien〉
Abstract:
Ethiopia is best understood as a country with multiple internal divides, but also endless interconnections which are constantly renegotiated. Contributing to the growing literature on the country's cultural diversity, this book gives special emphasis to contemporary dynamics of intra- and intergroup boundary formation and alteration. It also adds to the more general literature on identity change, boundary transgression of individuals and groups, and cultural contact and change. In ten chapters experienced Ethiopian and international scholars provide perspectives on territorial, ethnic, class, caste and gender and age related boundaries in different parts of the country. (Umschlagtext)
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction Susanne Epple . - Part I: Alteration and Crossing of Boundaries When Physical Boundaries Express Social Differentiation: The gated communities of inner city Addis Ababa / Yeraswork Admassie. - The Nyangatom Circle of Trust: Criteria for ethnic inclusion and exclusion / Gebre Yntiso . - Reclaiming Lost Identity: Redemption of slave descendants among the Ganta, Gamo highlands / Bosha Bombe . - Part II: Status Change and Interdependencies across Intra-ethnic Divides . - Adolescence, Bridehood and Marriage: Local perspectives on female status change in South Omo / Susanne Epple. - "Time has brought it!": Narrating female identities and change in Maale / Sophia Thubauville . - Daasanech Notions on Social Causation of Well-being and Misfortune Yuan Houtteman. - Giving Birth to an Ancestor: Boundaries and bridges between life and death among the Konso / Nicole Poissonnier. - Material Culture and Identity in South Omo: Convergence and divergence / Tina Briiderlin . - Part III: Differential Perception of Social Boundaries. - Knowledge, Identity and Epistemological Choices: Competing theoretical trends in Oromo studies / Thomas Osmond . - The Way to Shashamane: The Rastafari return to a fictive Ethiopia / Wolfgang Bender . - External Designation Versus Self-identification: The case of the Bayso and the Haro people on Gidiccho Island, Lake Abbaya / Susanne Epple and Fabienne Braukmann
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