UID:
almahu_9947413716602882
Format:
1 online resource (ix, 179 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9781782042143 (ebook)
Content:
Focuses on pastoralism, politics, policies and development in northern Kenya and southern Ethiopia. It is based on anthropological field research over a period of thirty-four years and attempts a synthesis of historical findings and political anthropology, including studies carried out from a perspective of development intervention. Presenting a detailed ethnographic view of recent events of ethnic violence in Kenya, the authors analyse how local patterns of conflict among pastoralists were influenced by both national and regional politics, which have encouraged an increased tendency of territorialized ethnicity. The authors then discuss ways of getting out of the ethnic trap and revitalizing a mobile livestock economy in a region where other forms of land use are impossible or much less effective. A companion volume to Islam and Ethnicity in Northern Kenya and Southern Ethiopia, it will be of particular interest to political anthropologists, students of nomadism, pastoral economy ecology, and globalization. GuÌnther Schlee is director of the Department of 'Integration and Conflict', Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle, Germany; Abdullahi Shongolo is an independent scholar based in Kenya.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).
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Introduction ---- 1. Moi Era Politics, Transnational Relations and the Territorialization of Ethnicity / Gonther Schlee --- 2. The Post-Moi Period 2002-2007 / Abdullahi A. Shongolo --- 3. Feedback and Cross-fertilization: The `Declaration of Indigenous Communities of Moyale District' / Gunther Schlee --- 4. Some Comparative Perspectives, Conclusions and Recommendations / Gunther Schlee.
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 9781847010360
Language:
English
URL:
http://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9781782042143/type/BOOK
