Playing Different Games : : The Paradox of Anywaa and Nuer Identification Strategies in the Gambella Region, Ethiopia / / Dereje Feyissa.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Feyissa, Dereje,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2011]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Integration and Conflict Studies ; 4
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (254 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of Figures and Tables --; Preface --; Acknowledgements --; List of Acronyms --; Introduction: The Regional Setting of Ethnic Identification and Ethnic Conflict --; Part I Theory and Methodology --; Chapter 1 Theoretical Orientation and Arguments --; Part II The Contrast --; Chapter 2 The Anywaa Primordialist Ethnic Identity Formation --; Chapter 3 The Nuer Constructivist Ethnic Identity Formation --; Part III The Encounter --; Chapter 4 In the Riverine Lands --; Chapter 5 The Cultural Contestation --; Chapter 6 Differential Incorporation into the Ethiopian State --; Chapter 7 The Anywaa Response to Ethiopian Ethnic Federalism --; Chapter 8 The Nuer Response to Ethiopian Ethnic Federalism --; Chapter 9 Civil War in the Sudan and Ethnic Processes in the Gambella Region --; Conclusion: Modes of Ethnic Identification --; Glossary of Local Terms --; References --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780857450890; 9783110998283
• DOI: 10.1515/9780857450890
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Dereje Feyissa.

Focusing on ethnicity and its relation to conflict, this book goes beyond sterile debates about whether ethnic identities are ‘natural’ or ‘socially constructed’. Rather, ethnic identity takes different forms. Some ethnic boundaries are perceived by the actors themselves as natural, while others are perceived to be permeable. The argument is substantiated through a comparative analysis of ethnic identity formation and ethnic conflict among the Anywaa and the Nuer in the Gambella region of western Ethiopia. The Anywaa and the Nuer are not just two ethnic groups but two kinds of ethnic groups. Conflicts between the Anywaa and Nuer are explained with reference to three variables: varying modes of identity formation, competition over resources and differential incorporation into the state system.