Vigdis Broch-Due is a professor in the Centre for International Poverty Research, University of Bergen, Norway. She has taught at the universities of Washington, Oslo, Cambridge and London, as well as at Rutgers University.

'Essential reading not only for Africanists but for anyone else interested in understanding the woeful state of today's world.' – Ethnos

• Preface List of Contributors 1. Violence and Sociality Reconsidered: An Introduction 2. 'Nowadays They Can Even Kill You for That Which They Feel is Theirs': Gender and the Production of Ethnic Identity in Kikuyu-Speaking Central Kenya 3. Conflicts in Context: Political Violence and Anthropological Puzzles 4. Hunger, Violence and the Moral Economy of War in Zimbabwe 5. Violence and the Boundaries of Belonging: Comparing Two Border Disputes in the South African Lowveld 6. Fertile Moral Links: Reconsidering Barabaig Violence 7. 'Food Itself is Fighting With Us': A Comparative Analysis of the Impact of Sudan's Civil War on South Sudanese Civilian Populations Located in the North and the South 8. The Politics of Identity and the Remembrance of Violence and Gender at the Installation of a Female Chief in Zimbabwe 9. Double-Voiced Violence in Kenya 10. Escape from Genocide: The Politics of Identity in Rwanda's Massacres 11. Women and the Politics of Identity: Voices in the South African Truth and Reconciliation 12. Ambiguous Identities: Notioa of War and 'Significant Others' among the Tigreans of Ethiopia

Vigdis Broch-Due is a professor in the Centre for International Poverty Research, University of Bergen, Norway. She has taught at the universities of Washington, Oslo, Cambridge and London, as well as at Rutgers University.

'Essential reading not only for Africanists but for anyone else interested in understanding the woeful state of today's world.' – Ethnos

• Preface List of Contributors 1. Violence and Sociality Reconsidered: An Introduction 2. 'Nowadays They Can Even Kill You for That Which They Feel is Theirs': Gender and the Production of Ethnic Identity in Kikuyu-Speaking Central Kenya 3. Conflicts in Context: Political Violence and Anthropological Puzzles 4. Hunger, Violence and the Moral Economy of War in Zimbabwe 5. Violence and the Boundaries of Belonging: Comparing Two Border Disputes in the South African Lowveld 6. Fertile Moral Links: Reconsidering Barabaig Violence 7. 'Food Itself is Fighting With Us': A Comparative Analysis of the Impact of Sudan's Civil War on South Sudanese Civilian Populations Located in the North and the South 8. The Politics of Identity and the Remembrance of Violence and Gender at the Installation of a Female Chief in Zimbabwe 9. Double-Voiced Violence in Kenya 10. Escape from Genocide: The Politics of Identity in Rwanda's Massacres 11. Women and the Politics of Identity: Voices in the South African Truth and Reconciliation 12. Ambiguous Identities: Notioa of War and 'Significant Others' among the Tigreans of Ethiopia

Vigdis Broch-Due is a professor in the Centre for International Poverty Research, University of Bergen, Norway. She has taught at the universities of Washington, Oslo, Cambridge and London, as well as at Rutgers University.

'Essential reading not only for Africanists but for anyone else interested in understanding the woeful state of today's world.' – Ethnos

• Preface List of Contributors 1. Violence and Sociality Reconsidered: An Introduction 2. 'Nowadays They Can Even Kill You for That Which They Feel is Theirs': Gender and the Production of Ethnic Identity in Kikuyu-Speaking Central Kenya 3. Conflicts in Context: Political Violence and Anthropological Puzzles 4. Hunger, Violence and the Moral Economy of War in Zimbabwe 5. Violence and the Boundaries of Belonging: Comparing Two Border Disputes in the South African Lowveld 6. Fertile Moral Links: Reconsidering Barabaig Violence 7. 'Food Itself is Fighting With Us': A Comparative Analysis of the Impact of Sudan's Civil War on South Sudanese Civilian Populations Located in the North and the South 8. The Politics of Identity and the Remembrance of Violence and Gender at the Installation of a Female Chief in Zimbabwe 9. Double-Voiced Violence in Kenya 10. Escape from Genocide: The Politics of Identity in Rwanda's Massacres 11. Women and the Politics of Identity: Voices in the South African Truth and Reconciliation 12. Ambiguous Identities: Notioa of War and 'Significant Others' among the Tigreans of Ethiopia