Changing Identifications and Alliances in North-east Africa : : Volume I: Ethiopia and Kenya / / ed. by Elizabeth E. Watson, Günther Schlee.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Abbink, Jon,; Abbute, Wolde-Selassie,; Amborn, Hermann,; Berisso, Taddesse,; Kellner, Alexander,; Masuda, Ken,; Schlee, Günther,; Tornay, Serge,; Watson, Elizabeth E.,; Wolde Gossa, Tadesse,; Wood, John C.,
• HerausgeberIn: Schlee, Günther,; Watson, Elizabeth E.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2009]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Series: Integration and Conflict Studies ; 2
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (272 p.)

Forms of group identity play a prominent role in everyday lives and politics in northeast 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 displacement on group identities. Drawing on the expertise of anthropologists, historians and geographers, these volumes provide a significant account of a society profoundly shaped by identity politics and contribute to a better understanding of the nature of conflict and war, and forms of alliance and peacemaking, thus providing a comprehensive portrait of this troubled region.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Maps, Figures and Tables -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Space and Time: Introduction to the Geography and Political History -- Part I Identification and Insecurity in the Lower Omo Valley -- Chapter 1 The Fate of the Suri: Conflict and Group Tension on the South-West Ethiopian Frontier -- Chapter 2 Resistance and Bravery: On Social Meanings of Guns in South-West Ethiopia -- Chapter 3 Modernization in the Lower Omo Valley and Adjacent Marches of Eastern Equatoria, Sudan: 1991–2000 -- Part II Institutions of Identification and Networks of Alliance among Rift Valley Agriculturalists -- Chapter 4 Burji: Versatile by Tradition -- Chapter 5 The Significance of the Oral Traditions of the Burji for Perceiving and Shaping their Inter-ethnic Relations -- Chapter 6 Mobility, Knowledge and Power: Craftsmen in the Borderland -- Part III Land, Identification and the State in Ethiopia -- Chapter 7 ‘We Have Been Sold’: Competing with the State and Dealing with Others -- Chapter 8 Identity, Encroachment and Ethnic Relations: the Gumuz and their Neighbours in North- Western Ethiopia -- Chapter 9 Debates over Culture in Konso since Decentralization (1991) -- Chapter 10 Changing Alliances of Guji-Oromo and their Neighbours: State Policies and Local Factors -- Part IV Pastoralists in the Kenya–Ethiopia Borderlands -- Chapter 11 Changing Alliances among the Boran, Garre and Gabra in Northern Kenya and Southern Ethiopia -- Chapter 12 Roads to Nowhere: Nomadic Understandings of Space and Ethnicity -- Bibliography -- Notes on Contributors -- Index