Playing different games
Subtitle: the paradox of Anywaa and Nuer identification strategies in the Gambella region, Ethiopia
By: Dereje Feyissa
Series: Integration and conflict studies -- v. 4; Integration and conflict studies -- v. 4.
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 237
ISBN-13: 9780857450883
Subjects: Nuer (African people); Ethnic identity; Ethnicity; Ethnic relations; Anuak (African people)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-232) and index.
Table of contents: title: Theory and methodology. Theoretical orientation and arguments; title: The contrast. The Anywaa primordial ethnic identity formation. The Nuer constructivist ethnic identity formation; title: The encounter. In the riverine lands. The cultural contestation. Differential incorporation into the Ethiopian state. The Anywaa response to Ethiopian ethnic federalism. The Nuer response to Ethiopian ethnic federalism. War in the Sudan and ethnic processes in the Gambella region; title: Conclusion: modes of ethnic identification.