Dynamics of Identification and Conflict

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).

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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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