Difference and Sameness as Modes of Integration (eBook)

Günther Schlee is a Founding Director of the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle, Germany. Prior to this appointment he was a Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Bielefeld. His main publications include Identities on the Move: Clanship and Pastoralism in Northern Kenya (Manchester University Press, 1989), How Enemies Are Made: Towards a Theory of Ethnic and Religious Conflict (Berghahn Books, 2008) and Pastoralism and Politics (with Abdullahi A. Shongolo, James Currey, 2012).

Alexander Horstmann is Associate Professor in Southeast Asian Studies at the School of Humanities, Tallinn University, Estonia. He has held visiting positions at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Mahidol University and EHESS in Paris. He is co-editor of the Berghahn Journal Advances in Research: Conflict and Society. He published Building Noah’s Ark for Migrants, Refugees, and Religious Communities ( Palgrave, 2015) and Faith in the Future: Understanding the Revitalization of Religion and Cultural Traditions in Asia (Brill, 2012).

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Introduction: Difference and Sameness as Modes of Integration
Günther Schlee

Chapter 1. Distances and Hierarchies: The Struggle over Ethnic Symbols in Nepal’s Public Spaces
Joanna Pfaff-Czarnecka

Chapter 2. Identity through Difference: Ambivalences of the Social Integration of Mauritania’s Former Slaves
Urs Peter Ruf

Chapter 3. Identification with the State and Identifications by the State
Günther Schlee

Chapter 4. Politics of Belonging and Identity Transformations in Northern Côte d’Ivoire and Western Burkina Faso
Youssouf Diallo

Chapter 5. Tanguiéta: Identity Processes and Political History in a Small African Town
Tilo Grätz

Chapter 6. Transnational Practices and Post-Soviet Collective Identity
Claus Bech Hansen and Markus Kaiser

Chapter 7. Living Together: The Transformation of Multi-Religious Coexistence in Southern Thailand
Alexander Horstmann

Chapter 8. Three Dyads Compared: Nuer/Anywaa (Ethiopia), Maasai/Kamba (Kenya), and Evenki/Buryat (Siberia)
Günther Schlee

Chapter 9. Ruling over Ethnic and Religious Differences: A Comparative Essay on Empires
Günther Schlee

Epilogue
Günther Schlee, Alexander Horstmann, and John Eidson

Bibliography
Index