Changing Identifications and Alliances in North-east Africa

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

Gnther 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: Rdiger Kppe).

List of Maps, Plates, Figures and Tables List of Abbreviations Introduction Elizabeth E. Watson and Gnther Schlee Part I. Raiding, War and Peace, Sudan and Northern Uganda 1. The Nuer Civil Wars Douglas H. Johnson 2. Peace and Puzzlement: Grass-roots Peace Initiatives between the Nuer and Dinka of South Sudan Sharon Elaine Hutchinson 3. The Experience of Violence and Pastoralist Identity in Southern Karamoja Sandra Gray Part II. Politics of Kinship and Marriage, Sudan and Northern Kenya 4. Endogamy and Alliance in Northern Sudan Janice Boddy 5. Descent and Descent Ideologies: The Blue Nile Area (Sudan) and Northern Kenya Compared Gnther Schlee Part III. Encounters with Modernity, Sudan and SudanEthiopia Borderlands 6. The Rise and Decline of Lorry Driving in the Fallata Migrant Community of Maiurno on the Blue Nile Al-Amin Abu-Manga 7. Mbororo (Fule) Migrations from Sudan into Ethiopia Dereje Feyissa and Gnther Schlee Part IV. Displacement, Refuge and Identification 8. Conflict and Identity Politics: The Case of AnywaaNuer Relations in Gambela, Western Ethiopia Dereje Feyissa 9. The Cultural Resilience in Nuer Conversion and a Capitalist Missionary Christiane Falge 10. Changing Identifications among the Pari Refugees in Kakuma Eisei Kurimoto 11. Crossing Points: Journeys of Transformation on the SudanEthiopian Border Wendy James Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index