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70 produkter
War and the Politics of Identity in Ethiopia
The Making of Enemies and Allies in the Horn of Africa
Inbunden, 2009
1121 kr
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Examines war and the impact of warfare on identity formation in Ethiopia.Images of war, narratives of suffering and notions of ethnicity are intrinsically linked to Western perceptions of Africa. Filtered through a mostly international media the information of African wars is confined to narrow …
Living Terraces in Ethiopia
Konso Landscape, Culture and Development
Inbunden, 2009
1109 kr
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Living Terraces is both an ethnographic and historical account of the terraces of Konso in southern Ethiopia.Terraced agricultural landscapes in Africa are remarkable feats of human engineering and social organization, enabling the conservation of soil and water and the cultivation of food. …
Borders and Borderlands as Resources in the Horn of Africa
Av Markus Virgil Hoehne, Dereje Feyissa m. fl.
Inbunden, 2010
1109 kr
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Borders offer opportunities as well as restrictions, and in the Horn of Africa they are used as economic, political, identity and status resources by borderland peoples.State borders are more than barriers. They structure social, economic and political spaces and as such provide opportunities as …
Land, Governance, Conflict and the Nuba of Sudan
Inbunden, 2010
1239 kr
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The conflict in the Nuba Mountains in central Sudan illustrates how state policies concerning the control of land can cause local conflicts to escalate into large scale wars, which become increasingly difficult to manage or resolve.The conventional perspective on Sudan's recent civil war …
Ethiopia
The Last Two Frontiers
Inbunden, 2011
1545 kr
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An historical overview of Ethiopia's transformation from a multicultural empire into a modern nation state.Provides the gist of one scholar's knowledge of this country acquired over several decades. The author of numerous works on Ethiopia, Markakis presents here an overarching, concise historical …
Pastoralism and Politics in Northern Kenya and Southern Ethiopia
Av Günther Schlee, Abdullahi A. Shongolo
Inbunden, 2012
1109 kr
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Examines how the lives of pastoralists in northern Kenya and southern Ethiopia are deeply affected by the creation of mutually exclusive ethnic territories and proposes ways to reverse this trend.Focuses on pastoralism, politics, policies and development in northern Kenya and southern Ethiopia. It …
Resurrecting Cannibals
The Catholic Church, Witch-Hunts and the Production of Pagans in Western Uganda
Inbunden, 2011
1109 kr
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This is the first ethnography of the Uganda Martyrs Guild [UMG], a lay movement of the Catholic Church, and its organized witch-hunts in the kingdom of Tooro, Western Uganda.This book explores cannibalism, food, eating and being eaten in its many variations. It deals with people who feel threatened …
Islam and Ethnicity in Northern Kenya and Southern Ethiopia
Av Günther Schlee, Abdullahi A. Shongolo
Inbunden, 2012
1109 kr
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A study of the longue durée of a marginalized part of northern Kenya, examining the process of territorialization and the role of Islam in politicizing ethnicity.The recent ethnic violence in Kenya has been preceded by a process of territorialization and politicization of ethnicity. This study …
Disrupting Territories
Land, Commodification & Conflict in Sudan
Av Richard Rottenburg, Sandra Calkins m. fl.
Inbunden, 2014
1239 kr
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Examines the commodification of land rights and the effect of international licences for resource extraction on the pastoral communities of Sudan.Nowhere has a range of case studies of Sudan been brought together in a single volume. Given the concern with the growing number and complexity of …
Regional Integration, Identity and Citizenship in the Greater Horn of Africa
Av Kidane Mengisteab, Redie Bereketeab
Inbunden, 2012
1223 kr
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Examines how regional integration can resolve the crises of the Greater Horn of Africa, exploring how it can be used as a mechanism for conflict resolution, promoting the economy and tackling issues of identity and citizenship.The Greater Horn of Africa (GHA) is engulfed by three interrelated …
Dealing with Government in South Sudan
Histories of Chiefship, Community and State
Inbunden, 2013
1276 kr
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Explores various aspects of chiefly authority in South Sudan from its historical origins and evolution under colonial, postcolonial and military rule, to its current roles and value in the newly independent country.South Sudan became Africa's newest nation in 2011, following decades of armed …
African Garrison State
Human Rights & Political Development in Eritrea REVISED AND UPDATED
Av Kjetil Tronvoll, Daniel R. Mekonnen
Inbunden, 2014
851 kr
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WINNER: 2015 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title AwardExamines Eritrea's deprivation of human rights since independence and its transformation into a militarised "garrison state".When Eritrea gained independence in 1991, hopes were high for its transformation. In two decades, however, it became one …
Ethiopia
The Last Two Frontiers
Häftad, 2013
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
448 kr
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An historical overview of Ethiopia's transformation from a multicultural empire into a modern nation state.Provides the gist of one scholar's knowledge of this country acquired over several decades. The author of numerous works on Ethiopia, Markakis presents here an overarching, concise historical …
Quest for Socialist Utopia
The Ethiopian Student Movement, c. 1960-1974
Av Bahru Zewde
Inbunden, 2014
1239 kr
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A lively historical account of the rise of Ethiopia's student movement by one of those involved, its role in overthrowing the imperial regime, and its impact on the shaping of the country's future.In the second half of the 1960s and the early 1970s, the Ethiopian student movement emerged from …
Foundations of an African Civilisation
Aksum and the northern Horn, 1000 BC - AD 1300
Häftad, 2014
368 kr
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A single coherent narrative of Aksumite civilisation revealing the roots of medieval Christian Ethiopia.This well-illustrated book provides an up-to-date survey of a key period in the history of northern Ethiopia and south-central Eritrea. It is accessible to the general reader, but its …
State of Post-conflict Reconstruction
Land, Urban Development and State-building in Juba, Southern Sudan
Inbunden, 2014
1144 kr
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Traces the dynamics of state-building in Juba, Southern Sudan 2005-2011, revealing how underlying ties of ethnicity and land dominated the actions of the various parties in post-conflict reconstruction and how these may continue to influence power and resource-sharing in the newly independent state …
Gender, Home & Identity
Nuer Repatriation to Southern Sudan
Inbunden, 2014
1109 kr
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Joint Winner of the Amaury Talbot Prize for African Anthropology 2014Analyses the experiences of exile and return of Nuer women and men of all ages and how they negotiate and reshape gender identities and relations in the context of prolonged war and violence.Joint Winner of the Amaury Talbot Prize …
Darfur
Colonial violence, Sultanic legacies and local politics, 1916-1956
Inbunden, 2015
1144 kr
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The first in-depth account of Darfur's history during the Anglo-Egyptian Condominium (from 1916).This work engages with a fundamental question in the study of African history and politics: to what extent did the colonial state re-define the character of local politics in the societies it governed? …
Remaking Mutirikwi
Landscape, Water and Belonging in Southern Zimbabwe
Inbunden, 2015
1498 kr
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Finalist for the African Studies Association 2016 Melville J. Herskovits AwardA detailed ethnographic and historical study of the implications of fast-track land reform in Zimbabwe from the perspective of those involvedin land occupations around Lake Mutirikwi, from the colonial period to the …
Women, Land and Justice in Tanzania
Av Helen Dancer
Inbunden, 2015
1015 kr
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Reveals the impact of Tanzania's land law reforms and the ways in which women's rights to land ownership have been overridden in spite of law.Recent decades have seen a wave of land law reforms across Africa, in the context of a "land rush" and land-grabbing. But how has this been enacted on the …
Dealing with Government in South Sudan
Histories of Chiefship, Community and State
Häftad, 2015
368 kr
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Essential reading for scholars of Sudan, of Africa and of local governance, as well as policy-makers and practitioners, this study explores chiefly authority in South Sudan from its historical origins and evolution under colonial,postcolonial and military rule, to its current roles and value in the …
Lost Nationalism
Revolution, Memory and Anti-colonial Resistance in Sudan
Inbunden, 2015
1276 kr
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Winner of the African Studies Association 2016 Bethwell A. Ogot Book Prize A lively account of the 1924 Revolution in Sudan and the way in which the colonial situation has affected its representation, a case in point inthe histories of nationalist anti-colonial movements in Africa and the Middle …
Oromo and the Christian Kingdom of Ethiopia
1300-1700
Inbunden, 2015
1545 kr
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First full-length history of the Oromo 1300-1700; explains their key part in the medieval Christian kingdom and demonstrates their importance in shaping Ethiopian history.This revisionary account of the Oromo people and the Christian kingdom of Ethiopia transforms our perception of the country's …
Women, Land and Justice in Tanzania
Av Helen Dancer
Häftad, 2015
275 kr
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Reveals the impact on women of post-1990s land reforms in Eastern Africa and the ways in which these are overridden in spite of law.Recent decades have seen a wave of land law reforms across Africa, in the context of a "land rush" and land-grabbing. But how has this been enacted on the ground and, …
Pastoralism and Politics in Northern Kenya and Southern Ethiopia
Av Günther Schlee, Abdullahi A. Shongolo m. fl.
Häftad, 2015
299 kr
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Examines how the lives of pastoralists in northern Kenya and southern Ethiopia are deeply affected by the creation of mutually exclusive ethnic territories and proposes ways to reverse this trend.This study, based on anthropological field research over a period of thirty-four years, focuses on …
Borders and Borderlands as Resources in the Horn of Africa
Av Dereje Feyissa, Markus Virgil Hoehne
Häftad, 2015
299 kr
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Borders offer opportunities as well as restrictions, and in the Horn of Africa they are used as economic, political, identity and status resources by borderland peoples.State borders are more than barriers. They structure social, economic and political spaces and as such provide opportunities as …
Eritrean National Service
Servitude for "the common good" and the Youth Exodus
Av Gaim Kibreab
Inbunden, 2017
1109 kr
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Gives voice to the conscripts who are forced to serve indefinitely without remuneration under the ENS in a powerful critical survey of its effect from the Liberation Struggle to today.The Eritrean National Service (ENS) lies at the core of the post-independence state, not only supplying its …
Oromo and the Christian Kingdom of Ethiopia
1300-1700
Häftad, 2017
2,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
448 kr
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First full-length history of the Oromo 1300-1700; explains their key part in the medieval Christian kingdom and demonstrates their importance in shaping Ethiopian history.This revisionary account of the Oromo people and the Christian kingdom of Ethiopia transforms our perception of the country's …
Quest for Socialist Utopia
The Ethiopian Student Movement, c. 1960-1974
Av Bahru Zewde
Häftad, 2017
357 kr
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A lively historical account of the rise of Ethiopia's student movement by one of those involved, its role in overthrowing the imperial regime, and its impact on the shaping of the country's future.Finalist for the Bethwell A. Ogot Book Prize to the author of the best book on East African Studies, …
African Garrison State
Human Rights & Political Development in Eritrea REVISED AND UPDATED
Av Kjetil Tronvoll, Daniel R. Mekonnen
Häftad, 2017
299 kr
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WINNER: 2015 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title AwardExamines Eritrea's deprivation of human rights since independence and its transformation into a militarised "garrison state".When Eritrea gained independence in 1991, hopes were high for its transformation. In two decades, however, it became one …
