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

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Dynamics of Identification and Conflict

Anthropological Encounters

Edited by Markus Virgil Hoehne, Echi Christina Gabbert and John R. Eidson

Afterword by Ivo Strecker

413 pages, 16 illus., bibliog., index

ISBN 978-1-80073-675-7 Hb Published (October 2022)

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“This is a comprehensive and substantial anthropological volume that successfully combines empirical research and theoretical debate.” • Magnus Treiber, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

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.

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).

Echi Christina Gabbert is Lecturer at the Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology at Göttingen University. She is co-editor of the volume Lands of the Future. Anthropological Perspectives on Pastoralism, Land Use and Tropes of Modernity in Eastern Africa (Berghahn, 2021).

John R. Eidson is a social anthropologist who retired in 2020 after teaching at the University of Maryland, the University of Leipzig and the University of New Hampshire and serving as Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. He continues with his research as an independent scholar.

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Anthropological Encounters

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Afterword by Ivo Strecker

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