Anthropology of Displaced Communities

Rogaia Abusharaf: Professor of Anthropology, Georgetown University in Qatar.George Appell: Firebird Foundation for Anthropological Research.Laura Barber: Formerly research student at the London School of Economic and Political Science.Jean Comaroff: Professor of African and American Studies and of Anthropology, Harvard University.John Comaroff: Professor of African and American Studies and of Anthropology, Harvard University.Emma Gilberthorpe: Associate Professor, School of International Development, University of East Anglia.Roxanne Hakim: Social Development Cluster Leader, World Bank,Washington D.C.Mark Jamieson: Senior Lecturer in Anthropology, University of East London.Robert Layton: Emeritus Professor of Anthropology, University of Durham.Thanuja Mummidi: Head of Centre for the Study of Social Exclusion and Inclusive Policy, School of Social Sciences and International Studied, Pondicherry University.Kwesi Sansculotte-Greenidge: Peace and Development Advisor, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Ethiopia.Noriko Sato: Former Urgent Anthropology Fellow at the University of Durham.

• Tribute: A tribute to my father - Laura P. Appell-Warren; Introduction: The anthropology of displaced communities - Robert Layton; Chapter 1: The RAI 's Urgent Anthropology Fellowships and the Anthropologists' Fund for Urgent Anthropological Research - George N. Appell; Chapter 2: Reckoning urgency: Making do in a Sudanese war-displaced community - Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf; Chapter 3: Case studies in asocial reproduction Displacement, leadership and conflict resolution among refugees in the Horn of Africa and the Sudan - Kwesi Sansculotte-Greenidge and Laura Barber; Chapter 4: Changing patterns of religion and ritual in a Vasava Bhil community impacted by involuntary resettlement - Roxanne Hakim; Chapter 5: The impact of attempted resettlement on the Konda Reddis, South India -Thanuja Mummidi; Chapter 6: Displacement, language loss and identity in two villages in eastern Nicaragua - Mark Jamieson; Chapter 7: Displacing culture Intervention and social change in Papua New Guinea's extractive industries -Emma Gilberthorpe; Chapter 8: Memory and historical narratives among Orthodox Christians in Syria at the start of the twenty-first century - Noriko Sato; Chapter 9: Nations with/out borders Neoliberalism and the problem of belonging in Africa, and beyond - Jean Comaroff and John L. Comaroff; Chapter 10: Cultural concentration camps Resettlement in Borneo, and other insults to the social order of indigenous peoples - George N. Appell; Contributors; Index.

This book is a testimony to George Appell's vision, generosity and legacy. A forceful representative of a tradition that cherishes ethnographic description as a potent stimulus for the appreciation of diversity and the best corrective to biased speculation. The Urgent Anthropology Fellowship Programme has created a wealth of work that illuminates the contemporary contexts of indigenous struggles worldwide, while encouraging the mutuality of thinking, a most precious gift;Laura Rival, Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Oxford; Going well beyond 'survival anthropology', the authors reveal the complexities of such situations and their effects on the well-being (or otherwise) of those obliged to uproot themselves and move elsewhere; Pat Caplan, Emeritus Professor of Anthropology, Goldsmiths, University of London.