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Contested Power in Ethiopia
Traditional Authorities and Multi-Party Elections
Av Kjetil Tronvoll, Tobias Hagmann
Häftad, 2011
1279 kr
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This book offers a comparative ethnography of the contested powers that shape democratization in Ethiopia. Although multi-party elections have become the norm in Africa, relatively little is known about the significance of non-state actors such as traditional authorities in electioneering. Focusing …
Bodywork: Dress as Cultural Tool
Dress and Demeanour in the South of Senegal
Häftad, 2004
1252 kr
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This book looks at the encounter between dress and the body. In the social sciences, dress tends to be viewed as a form of communication, a way in which the wearer gives expression to his or her ideas or situation. 'Bodywork', rather than looking at what people do with their clothes, looks at what …
Pot-King
The Body and Technologies of Power
Häftad, 2007
1261 kr
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The king of Mankon, in the western highlands of Cameroon, is an agricultural engineer by training, a businessman, and a prominent politician on the national stage. He partakes in the “return of the kings” in the forefront of an African public space. This book analyses the principles of the sacred …
Kenyan Khat
The Social Life of a Stimulant
Av Neil Carrier
Häftad, 2007
1279 kr
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This book provides a richly detailed ethnography of Kenyan khat, tracing some of the many national and transnational trajectories this controversial stimulant takes from its centre of production in the Nyambene Hills to consumers in Kenya and throughout the world. The author, guided by his friend …
King of Drinks
Schnapps Gin from Modernity to Tradition
Häftad, 2007
1234 kr
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Imported schnapps gin has a remarkable history in West Africa. Gin was imported in great quantities between 1880 and World War I, when its consumption showed access to the modern, international world. Subsequently schnapps was transformed into a good that signified traditional, local culture. …
Governance of Daily Life in Africa
Ethnographic Explorations of Public and Collective Services
Av Giorgio Blundo, Pierre-Yves Le Meur
Häftad, 2008
1279 kr
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Anchored in an empirically-grounded anthropology, this book explores the notion of governance in a non-normative way. It describes and analyses the institutional and political processes through which social actors and groups - be they state, private or 'third-sector' - contribute to the provision …
Land, Labour and Entrustment
West African Female Farmers and the Politics of Difference
Av Pamela Kea
Häftad, 2010
1279 kr
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Diverse contractual arrangements and forms of exchange established between smallholder farmers, their households and community work groups, are important to our understanding of processes of agrarian transformation in Sub-Saharan Africa. However, little has been written in this area. Challenging …
Maji Maji
Lifting the Fog of War
Av James Giblin
Häftad, 2010
1279 kr
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The Maji Maji war of 1905-07 in Tanzania was the largest African rebellion against European colonialism. This volume offers the fullest account of the war in the English language. Using oral accounts and little-used documentary evidence, contributors offer detailed histories of districts and …
Disputing the Floodplains
Institutional Change and the Politics of Resource Management in African Wetlands
Häftad, 2010
1252 kr
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This book has received the Environmental Research Award 2011 of the University of Bern, Switzerland.African Floodplains in semi-arid areas are important for local livelihoods as they harbor many common-pool resources such as fisheries, pasture, wildlife, veldt products, water and land for …
Being and Becoming Hausa
Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Av Anne Haour, Benedetta Rossi
Häftad, 2010
1279 kr
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Hausa society in West Africa has attracted researchers’ attention for decades, and has featured in the historical record for at least 500 years. Yet, no clear picture is available of the historical trajectories that underpin Hausa ethnogenesis. This book addresses this gap, deploying …
Powerful Presence of the Past
Integration and Conflict along the Upper Guinea Coast
Häftad, 2010
1279 kr
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This book conceptualizes integration and conflict as interrelated dimensions of social interaction, social relationships and alliances, identifications and identity constructions within society at large. In order to reach an in-depth understanding of integrative and violent forms of interaction in …
Politics of Ethnicity in Ethiopia
Actors, Power and Mobilisation under Ethnic Federalism
Av Lovise Aalen
Häftad, 2011
1279 kr
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Most governments in Africa, seeing the political mobilisation of ethnicity as a threat, have rejected the use of ethnic differences as an explicit basis for political representation. The one prominent exception is Ethiopia, which since 1991 has imposed a system of ethnic-based federalism that …
Consider Somaliland
State-Building with Traditional Leaders and Institutions
Häftad, 2012
1279 kr
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Can ‘traditional’ leaders and institutions help to build more legitimate, accountable and effective governments in polities or ‘states’ under (re)construction? This book investigates the case of “Somaliland”, the 20-year old non-recognized state which emerged from Somalia’s conflict and state …
Sure Road? Nationalisms in Angola, Guinea-Bissau and Mozambique
Häftad, 2012
1239 kr
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This book brings together new research on the subject of nations and nationalisms in Angola, Guinea-Bissau and Mozambique. It explores the history and politics of diverse nationalist discourses and ideologies, and it revisits the formation and contemporary developments of national imagined …
Nomads in the Shadows of Empires
Contests, Conflicts and Legacies on the Southern Ethiopian-Northern Kenyan Frontier
Av Gufu Oba
Häftad, 2013
1279 kr
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In Nomads in the Shadows of Empires Gufu Oba presents accounts of why the legacies of banditry and ethnic conflicts have proved so difficult to resolve along the southern Ethiopian and northern Kenyan frontier. Using interpretative and comparative methods to dialogue the relationships between …
Forgotten People
Political Banishment under Apartheid
Av Saleem Badat
Häftad, 2013
1318 kr
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The apartheid state employed many weapons against its opponents: imprisonment, banning, detention, assassination – and banishment. In a practice reminiscent of Tsarist and Soviet Russia, a large number of ‘enemies of the state’ were banished to remote areas, far from their homes, communities and …
Contest for Land in Madagascar
Environment, Ancestors and Development
Av Sandra Evers, Gwyn Campbell m. fl.
Häftad, 2013
1279 kr
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The Malagasy possess a profound religious, socio-political and economic attachment to land which connects individuals and kinship groups with the ancestors. International stakeholders value Madagascar for its biodiversity, minerals and agricultural potential, while the Malagasy state views land as …
Conquest and Resistance in the Ethiopian Empire, 1880 - 1974
The Case of the Arsi Oromo
Av Abbas Gnamo
Häftad, 2014
1318 kr
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This work examines the philosophical origins of Oromo egalitarian and democratic thoughts and practice, the Gadaa-Qaalluu system, kinship organization, the introduction and spread of Islam and the consequent socio-cultural change. It sheds light on the advent of the Ethiopian empire under Menelik …
Colonial Survey and Native Landscapes in Rural South Africa, 1850 - 1913
The Politics of Divided Space in the Cape and Transvaal
Häftad, 2014
1289 kr
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In Colonial Survey and Native Landscapes in Rural South Africa, 1850 - 1913, Lindsay Frederick Braun explores the technical processes and struggles surrounding the creation and maintenance of boundaries and spaces in South Africa in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The precision of …
Africa in the Indian Ocean
Islands in Ebb and Flow
Häftad, 2015
1289 kr
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The four sovereign Indian Ocean states of Comoros, Madagascar, Mauritius and Seychelles, the two French overseas departments of Mayotte and Reunion, as well as the British colony of BIOT (Chagos), all form part of Africa. As insular nations and territories in an increasingly globalized, militarized …
Elasticity in Domesticity: White Women in Rhodesian Zimbabwe, 1890-1979
Häftad, 2018
1143 kr
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In Elasticity in Domesticity: White women in Rhodesian Zimbabwe, 1890-1979 Ushehwedu Kufakurinani examines the colonial experiences of white women in what was later called Rhodesia. He demonstrates the extent to which the state and society appropriated white women’s labour power and the workings of …
From Sudan to South Sudan
IGAD and the Role of Regional Mediation in Africa
Av Irit Back
Häftad, 2020
1110 kr
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Irit Back’s book From Sudan to South Sudan: IGAD and the Role of Regional Mediation in Africa comprehensively analyses the full achievements, shortcomings, and implications of IGAD (Intergovernmental Authority on Development) mediation efforts in Sudan and South Sudan. IGAD’s active mediation was a …
Moving Spaces
Creolisation and Mobility in Africa, the Atlantic and Indian Ocean
Häftad, 2019
1110 kr
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Moving Spaces: Creolisation and Mobility in Africa, the Atlantic and Indian Ocean addresses issues of creolisation, mobility, and migration of ideas, songs, stories, and people, as well as plants, in various parts of Africa, the Atlantic and the Indian Ocean worlds. It brings together Anglophone, …
Contested Lands of Laikipia
Histories of Claims and Conflict in a Kenyan Landscape
Häftad, 2020
1188 kr
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Pastoralists, ranchers of European descent, conservationists, smallholders, and land investors with political influence converge on the Laikipia plateau in Kenya. Land is claimed by all - the tactics differ. Private property rights are presented, histories of presence are told, charges of …
African Agency in China’s Tea Trade
Commercial Networks, Brand Creation and Intellectual Property
Häftad, 2022
1253 kr
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Every month tons of green tea travel from China to West Africa in a movement that largely thrives beyond the attention of Western observers. In this trade, Malian merchants assumed a central role. They travel to China, visit family gardens and the factories, which process and package the product. …
Across the Waves
Strategies of Belonging in Indian Ocean Island Societies
Av Iain Walker
Häftad, 2022
1163 kr
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All the islands of the western Indian Ocean are immigrant societies: Austronesian seafarers, African slaves, Arab traders, South Asian indentured labourers and European plantation owners have all settled, some voluntarily, others less so, on Madagascar and Zanzibar, in the Mascarenes and the …
State-building South Sudan
International Intervention and the Formation of a Fragmented State
Häftad, 2022
1237 kr
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How did South Sudan become one of the most striking examples of state-building failure and state collapse after years of international support? What went wrong in the state-building enterprise? How did external intervention overlap and intertwine with local processes of accumulation of power and of …
Zimbos Never Die?
Negotiating Survival in a Challenged Economy, 1990s to 2015
Häftad, 2023
1398 kr
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This book seeks to explore how the Zimbabwean society and its institutions have survived if not succumbed to continuous economic crises in the country. From the 1990s Zimbabwe experienced a sustained economic decline challenged by both internal and external strains. Coupled with internal …
Contested Liberations, Transitions and the Crisis in Zimbabwe
Encounters with Post-colonial (Counter)Cultures (2000-2020)
Häftad, 2024
1183 kr
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How and when does culture enter the discourse on liberation, transition and crisis in an African post-colony such as Zimbabwe? In a deeply polarised nation reeling from a difficult transition and an unrelenting economic crisis, it is increasingly becoming difficult for the ZANU PF regime to …
Space is the Ultimate Luxury
Capitalists, Conservationists, and Ancestral Land in Namibia
Av Bernard C. Moore, Luregn Lenggenhager
Häftad, 2025
1191 kr
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The Open Access publication of this book has been published with the support of the Swiss National Science Foundation.This book explores the history, ecology, and society of a seemingly inhospitable stretch of land along the Orange River in southern Namibia. Here, a group of African farmers have …
