Dealing with the dynamics of identification and conflict, this book uses theoretical orientations ranging from political ecology to rational choice theory, interpretive approaches, Marxism and multiscalar analysis. Case studies set in Africa, Europe and Central Asia are grouped in three sections devoted to pastoralism, identity and migration. What connects all of these anthropological explorations is a close focus on processes of identification and conflict at the level of particular actors in relation to the behaviour of large aggregates of people and to systemic conditions.
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This is a comprehensive and substantial anthropological volume that successfully combines empirical research and theoretical debate. Magnus Treiber, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
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Acknowledgements
Introduction: Approaching the Dynamics of Identification and Conflict
through the Anthropology of Günther Schlee
John R. Eidson, Echi Christina Gabbert and Markus Virgil Hoehne
Part I: Pastoralists and Others: Identity, Territoriality, History and
Politics
Chapter
1. What Do (Pastoralist) Women Want? Warfare, Cowardice and
Sexuality in Northern Kenya
Bilinda Straight
Chapter
2. Negotiating Complexity in East Africa: Landscape, Territoriality
and Identity Among Maa-speakers, North to South
John G. Galaty
Chapter
3. Where Do They Belong and What Belongs to Them? Acceptance of
Sedentarizing Fule and Rejection of Arab Returnees in Blue Nile State and
Sennar State, Sudan
Elhadi Ibrahim Osman and Al-Amin Abu-Manga
Chapter
4. Ethnicity, Identity and Citizenship of Recent Migrant Groups in
Ghana
Steve Tonah
Chapter
5. Studying Conflict and Ethnicity Through Performative and
Audio-Visual Research Methods: Examples from Cameroon
Michaela Pelican
Part II: Conflict and Identification, Interests and Integration
Chapter
6. The Topography of Terrorism: Between Local Conflicts and Global
Jihad
Sophie Roche
Chapter
7. Politics of Belonging and the Litmus Test of Retaliation
Bertram Turner
Chapter
8. Heroes and Identities: Relativism, Myth and Reality
Aleksandar Bokovi
Chapter
9. Kota akwa What an Italian Pidgin Poem from Tigray Tells
About Self-Image, Resistance and Conflict
Wolbert G.C. Smidt
Chapter
10. Integration Through Conflict: The Proliferation of Mutually
Constituted Sacred Narratives in the Process of State (Re-)Formation in
Ethiopia
Dereje Feyissa
Chapter
11. A Dimpled Spider, Fat and White: U.S. Exceptionalism and the
Accumulation of Terror
Steve Reyna
Part III: Migration and Exclusion, Displacement and Emplacement
Chapter
12. The Challenges of Migration, Integration and Exclusion:
Günther Schlees Commitment to the Max Planck WiMi Initiative (2017-2020)
Marie-Claire Foblets and Zeynep Yanasmayan
Chapter
13. Dilemmas of Identification: The Traders Dilemma Among
Khorezmians in Tashkent
Rano Turaeva
Chapter
14. Is Migrating a Rational Decision? Motives and Procedures of
Qazaq Repatriation
Peter Finke
Chapter
15. Transnational Communities and Shifting Moral Values: Migrants
Between the Netherlands and the Moluccas
Keebet von Benda-Beckmann
Chapter
16. Multiscalar Social Relations of Dispossession and Emplacement
Nina Glick Schiller
Epilogue: Emancipatory Cosmopolitanism or Global Neighbourhood?
John R. Eidson, Echi Christina Gabbert, and Markus Virgil Hoehne
Biographic Interview with Günther Schlee
Markus Virgil Hoehne
Afterword: Charisma: Ethnographers and Their Host Societies
Ivo Strecker
To Günther Schlee, with Thanks
Abdullahi A. Shongolo
Published Works by Günther Schlee
compiled by Viktoria Giehler-Zeng
Index
Markus Virgil Hoehne is Lecturer at the Institute of Social Anthropology at the University of Leipzig. He published Between Somaliland and Puntland: Marginalization, Militarization and Conflicting Political Visions (Rift Valley Institute, 2015) and is co-editor of The State and the Paradox of Customary Law in Africa (Routledge, 2018).
