Changing Identifications and Alliances in North-east Africa

Günther Schlee was a Professor at Bielefeld until 1999. He currently is the director of the section Integration and Conflict at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle, focusing on Africa, Central Asia, and Europe. His publications include Identities on the Move: Clanship and Pastoralism in Northern Kenya (International African Institute, 1989), How Enemies are Made (Berghahn, 2008), Rendille Proverbs in their Social and legal Context (with Karaba Sahado) and Boran Proverbs in their Cultural Context (with Abdullahi Shongolo) (both Cologne: Rüdiger Köppe).

“With contributions by many of the leading scholars of the region, these volumes convey both the distinctiveness of these diverse communities and their mutual relationships and reciprocal influences, thus providing an analytical handbook to this important region.”  ·  African Studies Review“…both theoretically and ethnographically, these volumes present a major contribution to contemporary anthropology, as well as social sciences in general.”  ·  Ethnos: Journal of Anthropology“This in an excellent volume … [that] brings together papers of a uniformly high standard by some of the most experienced and knowledgeable scholars working on this region. ... The papers more than demonstrate the complexity and dynamism of identifications in the region and clearly reflect the insight and experience of long-term researchers in the field. ... It is an original and valuable collection ... which provides a sensitive and nuanced exploration of the meaning of identity in everyday lives as well as in relation to conflict and government.”  ·  Cherry Leonardi, Durham University

• List of Maps, Plates, Figures and TablesList of AbbreviationsIntroductionElizabeth E. Watson and Günther SchleePart I. Raiding, War and Peace, Sudan and Northern Uganda1. The Nuer Civil WarsDouglas H. Johnson2. Peace and Puzzlement: Grass-roots Peace Initiatives between the Nuer and Dinka of South SudanSharon Elaine Hutchinson3. The Experience of Violence and Pastoralist Identity in Southern KaramojaSandra GrayPart II. Politics of Kinship and Marriage, Sudan and Northern Kenya4. Endogamy and Alliance in Northern SudanJanice Boddy5. Descent and Descent Ideologies: The Blue Nile Area (Sudan) and Northern Kenya ComparedGünther SchleePart III. Encounters with Modernity, Sudan and Sudan–Ethiopia Borderlands6. The Rise and Decline of Lorry Driving in the Fallata Migrant Community of Maiurno on the Blue NileAl-Amin Abu-Manga7. Mbororo (Fulɓe) Migrations from Sudan into EthiopiaDereje Feyissa and Günther SchleePart IV. Displacement, Refuge and Identification8. Conflict and Identity Politics: The Case of Anywaa–Nuer Relations in Gambela, Western EthiopiaDereje Feyissa9. The Cultural Resilience in Nuer Conversion and a ‘Capitalist Missionary’Christiane Falge10. Changing Identifications among the Pari Refugees in KakumaEisei Kurimoto11. Crossing Points: Journeys of Transformation on the Sudan–Ethiopian BorderWendy JamesBibliographyNotes on ContributorsIndex