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Book Book Leiden University catalogue Leiden University catalogue
Title:Changing identifications and alliances in North-East Africa
Editors:Schlee, Günther
Watson, Elizabeth E.ISNI
Year:2009
Language:English
City of publisher:New York
Publisher:Berghahn Books
Geographic term:Northeast Africa
Subjects:group identity
politics
ethnic relations
Abstract:Forms of group identity play a prominent role in everyday lives and politics in northeast Africa. In this two-volume collective work, 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. Volume I, focusing on Ethiopia and Kenya, has four parts: 1) Identification and insecurity in the Lower Omo Valley (chapters by Jon Abbink, Ken Masuda, and Serge Tornay); 2) Institutions of identification and networks of alliance among Rift Valley agriculturalists (Hermann Amborn, Alexander Kellner); 3) Land, identification and the State in Ethiopa (Tadesse Wolde Gossa, Wolde-Selassie Abbute, Elizabeth E. Watson, and Taddesse Berisso); 4) Pastoralists in the Kenya-Ethiopia borderlands (Günther Schlee, John C. Wood). The second volume, on Sudan, Uganda and the Ethiopia-Sudan borderlands, contains the following parts: 1) Raiding, war and peace, Sudan and northern Uganda (Douglas H. Johnson, Sharon Elaine Hutchinson, Sandra Gray); 2) Politics of kinship and marriage, Sudan and northern Kenya (Janice Boddy, Günther Schlee); 3) Encounters with modernity, Sudan and Sudan-Ethiopa borderlands (Al-Amin Abu-Manga, Dereje Feyissa and Günther Schlee); 4) Displacement, refuge and identification (Dereje Feyissa, Christiane Falge, Eisei Kurimoto, Wendy James). [ASC Leiden abstract]
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