Changing identifications and alliances in North-East Africa. Ethiopia and Kenya / Volume I, (2009)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Günther Schlee and Elizabeth E. Watson.
• Other Names: Schlee, Günther; Watson, Elizabeth E, 1968-
• Contents: List of Illustrations; List of Maps, Figures and Tables; List of Abbreviations Introduction; Günther Schlee Space and Time: Introduction to the Geography and Political History; Günther Schlee and Elizabeth E. Watson Part I. Identification and Insecurity in the Lower Omo Valley 1. The Fate of the Suri: Conflict and Group Tension on the South-West Ethiopian Frontier; Jon Abbink 2. Resistance and Bravery: On Social Meanings of Guns in South-West Ethiopia; Ken Masuda 3. Modernization in the Lower Omo Valley and Adjacent Marches of Eastern Equatoria, Sudan: 1991–2000; Serge Tornay Part II. Institutions of Identification and Networks of Alliance among Rift Valley Agriculturalists 4. Burji: Versatile by Tradition; Hermann Amborn 5. The Significance of the Oral Traditions of the Burji for Perceiving and Shaping their Inter-ethnic Relations; Alexander Kellner 6. Mobility, Knowledge and Power: Craftsmen in the Borderland; Hermann Amborn Part III. Land, Identification and the State in Ethiopia 7. 'We Have Been Sold': Competing with the State and Dealing with Others; Tadesse Wolde Gossa 8. Identity, Encroachment and Ethnic Relations: the Gumuz and their Neighbours in North-Western Ethiopia; Wolde-Selassie Abbute 9. Debates over Culture in Konso since Decentralization (1991); Elizabeth E. Watson 10. Changing Alliances of Guji-Oromo and their Neighbours: State Policies and Local Factors; Taddesse Berisso Part IV. Pastoralists in the Kenya-Ethiopia Borderlands 11. Changing Alliances among the Boran, Garre and Gabra in Northern Kenya and Southern Ethiopia; Günther Schlee 12. Roads to Nowhere: Nomadic Understandings of Space and Ethnicity; John C. Wood Bibliography; Notes on Contributors; Index
• Publisher Details: New York : Berghahn Books
• Publication Date: 2009
• Extent: 1 online resource (xii, 260 pages), illustrations, maps
• Subjects: 305.800963; Group identity -- Africa, Northeast; Ethnicity -- Africa, Northeast; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- General; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies; SCIENCE -- Earth Sciences -- Geography; Ethnic relations; Ethnicity; Group identity; Social conditions; Africa, Northeast -- Ethnic relations; Africa, Northeast -- Social conditions; Africa, Northeast; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781845459574; 1845459571
• Related ISBNs: 9781845456030; 1845456033
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-252) and index.; Note: Print version record.
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