The global Nuer
Subtitle: transnational life-worlds, religious movements and war
By: Christiane Falge
Series: Topics in interdisciplinary African studies -- volume 38; Topics in interdisciplinary African studies -- v. 38.
Publisher: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Köln
Language: eng
Number of pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9783896459084
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Nuer (African people); Social conditions; Refugees; Religion; Sudanese; South Sudanese
Other titles: Transnational life, religious movements and war
Description: "The book looks at various effects of globalization on Nuer society such as changes in their social structure and the creation of a strong desire to counter their societies' marginalization. It is based on a multi-sited ethnography 'following the people' from Funyido refugee camp in Gambelle/Ethiopia and adjacent villages in the Ethio-Sudanese borderlands to Des Moines/Iowa in the US, and back to the borderlands. While the books' [i.e. book's] particular focus is on the transnational linkages created through US based churches built up in the homeland by Nuer missionaries, it also contains case studies from other social, political and military fields. The ethnography reveals how individual agency in these institutions striving for leadership and power and the search for 'advancement' and modernity follows patterns familiar from the lineage structure. The outcome of these practices are processes of fission that dramatically endanger collective cohesion and advance further marginalization for the Nuer."--Page [4] of cover.
Notes: Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Halle an der Saale, 2006, under the title: The global Nuer : modes of transnational livelihoods.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [257]-270).
Table of contents: title: Orientations --; title: Nuer Christianity, the SPLA war and the Itange refugee camp --; title: The expansion of fields of migration --; title: The dynamics of Nuer violence --; title: Outmigration to the United States: 'We are no longer the Nuer of before' --; title: Coping with life in the United States --; title: Explaining conflicts among the Nuer: mobilizing lineage identities within Nuer churches --; title: The transnationalization of religious movements --; title: Afterword.