Changing identifications and alliances in North-East Africa. Volume II, Sudan, Uganda and the Ethiopia-Sudan borderlands /

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Schlee, Günther, Watson, Elizabeth E., 1968-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Berghahn Books, 2009.
Series:Integration and conflict studies ; v. 3.
Subjects:
Group identity > Africa, Northeast.
Ethnicity > Africa, Northeast.
Identité collective > Afrique du Nord-Est.
Ethnicité > Afrique du Nord-Est.
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.
Afrique du Nord-Est > Relations interethniques.
Afrique du Nord-Est > Conditions sociales.
Northeast Africa.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • List of Maps, Plates, Figures and Tables; List of Abbreviations Introduction; Elizabeth E. Watson and Günther Schlee Part I. Raiding, War and Peace, Sudan and Northern Uganda 1. The Nuer Civil Wars; Douglas H. Johnson 2. Peace and Puzzlement: Grass-roots Peace Initiatives between the Nuer and Dinka of South Sudan; Sharon Elaine Hutchinson 3. The Experience of Violence and Pastoralist Identity in Southern Karamoja; Sandra Gray Part II. Politics of Kinship and Marriage, Sudan and Northern Kenya 4. Endogamy and Alliance in Northern Sudan; Janice Boddy 5. Descent and Descent Ideologies: The Blue Nile Area (Sudan) and Northern Kenya Compared; Günther Schlee Part III. Encounters with Modernity, Sudan and Sudan-Ethiopia Borderlands 6. The Rise and Decline of Lorry Driving in the Fallata Migrant Community of Maiurno on the Blue Nile; Al-Amin Abu-Manga 7. Mbororo (Fulɓe) Migrations from Sudan into Ethiopia; Dereje Feyissa and Günther Schlee Part IV. Displacement, Refuge and Identification 8. Conflict and Identity Politics: The Case of Anywaa-Nuer Relations in Gambela, Western Ethiopia; Dereje Feyissa 9. The Cultural Resilience in Nuer Conversion and a 'Capitalist Missionary'; Christiane Falge 10. Changing Identifications among the Pari Refugees in Kakuma; Eisei Kurimoto 11. Crossing Points: Journeys of Transformation on the Sudan-Ethiopian Border; Wendy James Bibliography; Notes on Contributors; Index

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