| Description |
1 online resource (272 pages) |
| Series |
Integration and Conflict Studies, 2 |
| Contents |
Title page-Chaning Identifications and Alliances in North-East Africa; 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; Chapter 2-Resistance and Bravery; Chapter 3-Modernization in the Lower Omo Vally and Adjacent Marches of Eastern Equatoria Sudan:1991-2000; Part II-Institutions of Identification and Networks of Alliance among Rift Valley Agriculturalists |
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Chapter 4-Burji: Versatile by TraditionChapter 5-The Significance of the Oral Traditions of the Burji for Perceiving and Shaping their Inter-ethic Relations; Chapter 6-Mobility, knowledge and Power: Craftsmen in the Borderland; Part III-Land, Identification and the State in Ethiopia; Chpater 7-'We Have Been Sold': Competing with the State and Dealling with Others; Chapter 8-Identity, Encroachment and Ethnic Relations: the Gumuz and |
| Summary |
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 accoun |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Watson, Elizabeth E
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| ISBN |
9781845459574 |
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1845459571 |
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