Dynamics of Identification and Conflict : Anthropological Encounters / edited by Markus Virgil Hoehne, Echi Christina Gabbert, and John R. Eidson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Höhne, Markus Virgil, editor.

Gabbert, Echi Christina, editor.

Eidson, John Rhodes, 1954- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Group identity--Case studies.

Group identity.

Ethnicity--Case studies.

Ethnicity.

Ethnic conflict--Case studies.

Ethnic conflict.

Pastoral systems--Case studies.

Pastoral systems.

Migration, Internal--Case studies.

Migration, Internal.

Emigration and immigration--Social aspects--Case studies.

Emigration and immigration.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (413 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn Books, [2025]

Summary:

Dealing with the dynamics of identification and conflict, this book uses theoretical orientations ranging from political ecology to rational choice theory, interpretive approaches, Marxism and multiscalar analysis. Case studies set in Africa, Europe and Central Asia are grouped in three sections devoted to pastoralism, identity and migration. What connects all of these anthropological explorations is a close focus on processes of identification and conflict at the level of particular actors in relation to the behaviour of large aggregates of people and to systemic conditions.

Contents:

DYNAMICS OF IDENTIFICATION AND CONFLICT

Contents

Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Approaching the Dynamics of Identification and Conflict through the Anthropology of Günther Schlee

Part I - Pastoralists and Others: Identify, Territoriality, History and Politics

Chapter 1 - What Do (Pastoralist) Women Want? Warfare, Cowardice and Sexuality in Northern Kenya

Chapter 2 - Negotiating Complexity in East Africa: Landscape, Territoriality and Identify among Maa Speakers, North to South

Chapter 3 - Where Do They Belong and What Belongs to Them? Acceptance of 'Sedentarizing' Fulbe and Rejection of Arab Returnees in Blue Nile State and Sennar State, Sudan

Chapter 4 - Ethnicity, Identity and Citizenship of Recent Migrant Groups in Ghana

Chapter 5 - Studying Conflict and Ethnicity through Performative and Audio-Visual Research Methods: Examples from Cameroon

Part II - Conflict and Identification, Interests and Integration

Chapter 6 - The Topography of Terrorism: Between Local Conflicts and Global Jihad

Chapter 7 - Politics of Belonging and the Litmus Test of Retaliation

Chapter 8 - Heroes and Identities: Relativism, Myth and Reality

Chapter 9 - 'Kosta akwa': What an Italian Pidgin Poem from Tigray Says about Self-Image, Resistance and Conflict

Chapter 10 - Integration Through Conflict: The Proliferation of Mutually Constructed Sacred Narratives in the Process of State (Re-)Formation in Ethiopia

Chapter 11 - 'A Dimpled Spider, Fat and White': US Exceptionalism and the Accumulation of Terror

Part III - Migration and Exclusion, Displacement and Emplacement

Chapter 12 - From Bases of Identifications to Acts of Exclusion? Günther Schlee's Contibutions to the Max Planck Research Initiative on Migration

Chapter 13 - Dilemmas of Identification: The Trader's Dilemma among Khorezmians in Tashkent.

Chapter 14 - Is Migrating a Rational Decision? Motives and Procedures of Qazaq Repatriation

Chapter 15 - Transnational Communities and Shifting Moral Values: Migrants between the Netherlands and the Moluccas

Chapter 16 - Multiscalar Social Relations of Dispossession and Emplacement

Epilogue: Emancipatory Cosmopolitanism or Global Neighbourhood?

Afterword: Charisma: Enthographers and Their Host Societies

Interview with Günther Schlee, Halle (Saale), 10 December 2018

To Günther Schlee, with Thanks . . .

Published Works by Günther Schlee (Selection)

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-83695-162-0

1-80073-676-2

OCLC:

1347024872