Difference and Sameness as Modes of Integration

Günther Schlee is Director emeritus 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).

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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



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