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.
Edited by:
Markus Virgil Hoehne,
Echi Christina Gabbert,
John R. Eidson
Imprint: Berghahn Books
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
ISBN: 9781836950493
ISBN 10: 1836950497
Pages: 413
Publication Date: 01 March 2025
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
,
Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction: Approaching the Dynamics of Identification and Conflict through the Anthropology of Günther Schlee John R. Eidson, Echi Christina Gabbert and Markus Virgil Hoehne Part I: Pastoralists and Others: Identity, Territoriality, History and Politics Chapter 1. What Do (Pastoralist) Women Want? Warfare, Cowardice and Sexuality in
Northern Kenya Bilinda Straight Chapter 2. Negotiating Complexity in East Africa: Landscape, Territoriality and Identity Among Maa-speakers, North to South John G. Galaty Chapter 3. Where Do They Belong and What Belongs to Them? Acceptance of ‘Sedentarizing’ Fulɓe and Rejection of Arab Returnees in Blue Nile State and Sennar State, Sudan Elhadi Ibrahim Osman and Al-Amin Abu-Manga Chapter 4. Ethnicity, Identity and Citizenship of Recent Migrant Groups in Ghana Steve Tonah Chapter 5. Studying Conflict and Ethnicity Through Performative and Audio-Visual Research Methods: Examples from Cameroon Michaela Pelican Part II: Conflict and Identification, Interests and Integration Chapter 6. The Topography of Terrorism: Between Local Conflicts and Global Jihad Sophie Roche Chapter 7. Politics of Belonging and the Litmus Test of Retaliation Bertram Turner Chapter 8. Heroes and Identities: Relativism, Myth and Reality Aleksandar Bošković Chapter 9. “Košta akwa” – What an Italian Pidgin Poem from Tigray Tells About Self-Image, Resistance and Conflict Wolbert G.C. Smidt Chapter 10. Integration Through Conflict: The Proliferation of Mutually Constituted Sacred Narratives in the Process of State (Re-)Formation in Ethiopia Dereje Feyissa Chapter 11. ‘A Dimpled Spider, Fat and White’: U.S. Exceptionalism and the Accumulation of Terror Steve Reyna Part III: Migration and Exclusion, Displacement and Emplacement Chapter 12. ‘The Challenges of Migration, Integration and Exclusion’: Günther Schlee’s Commitment to the Max Planck WiMi Initiative (2017-2020) Marie-Claire Foblets and Zeynep Yanasmayan Chapter 13. Dilemmas of Identification: The Trader’s Dilemma Among Khorezmians in Tashkent Rano Turaeva Chapter 14. Is Migrating a Rational Decision? Motives and Procedures of Qazaq Repatriation Peter Finke Chapter 15. Transnational Communities and Shifting Moral Values: Migrants Between the Netherlands and the Moluccas Keebet von Benda-Beckmann Chapter 16. Multiscalar Social Relations of Dispossession and Emplacement Nina Glick Schiller Epilogue: Emancipatory Cosmopolitanism or Global Neighbourhood? John R. Eidson, Echi Christina Gabbert, and Markus Virgil Hoehne Biographic Interview with Günther Schlee Markus Virgil Hoehne Afterword: Charisma: Ethnographers and Their Host Societies Ivo Strecker To Günther Schlee, with Thanks … Abdullahi A. Shongolo Published Works by Günther Schlee compiled by Viktoria Giehler-Zeng Index
Markus Virgil Hoehne is Lecturer at the Institute of Social Anthropology at the University of Leipzig. He published Between Somaliland and Puntland: Marginalization, Militarization and Conflicting Political Visions (Rift Valley Institute, 2015) and is co-editor of The State and the Paradox of Customary Law in Africa (Routledge, 2018).
Reviews for Dynamics of Identification and Conflict: Anthropological Encounters
“This is a comprehensive and substantial anthropological volume that successfully combines empirical research and theoretical debate.” • Magnus Treiber, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
