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).

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Approaching the Dynamics of Identification and Conflict through the Anthropology of Günther SchleeJohn R. Eidson, Echi Christina Gabbert and Markus Virgil HoehnePart I: Pastoralists and Others: Identity, Territoriality, History and PoliticsChapter 1. What Do (Pastoralist) Women Want? Warfare, Cowardice and Sexuality in 
Northern KenyaBilinda StraightChapter 2. Negotiating Complexity in East Africa: Landscape, Territoriality and Identity Among Maa-speakers, North to SouthJohn G. GalatyChapter 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, SudanElhadi Ibrahim Osman and Al-Amin Abu-MangaChapter 4. Ethnicity, Identity and Citizenship of Recent Migrant Groups in GhanaSteve TonahChapter 5. Studying Conflict and Ethnicity Through Performative and Audio-Visual Research Methods: Examples from CameroonMichaela PelicanPart II: Conflict and Identification, Interests and IntegrationChapter 6. The Topography of Terrorism: Between Local Conflicts and Global JihadSophie RocheChapter 7. Politics of Belonging and the Litmus Test of RetaliationBertram TurnerChapter 8. Heroes and Identities: Relativism, Myth and RealityAleksandar BoškovićChapter 9. “Košta akwa” – What an Italian Pidgin Poem from Tigray Tells About Self-Image, Resistance and ConflictWolbert G.C. SmidtChapter 10. Integration Through Conflict: The Proliferation of Mutually Constituted Sacred Narratives in the Process of State (Re-)Formation in EthiopiaDereje FeyissaChapter 11. ‘A Dimpled Spider, Fat and White’: U.S. Exceptionalism and the Accumulation of TerrorSteve ReynaPart III: Migration and Exclusion, Displacement and EmplacementChapter 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 YanasmayanChapter 13. Dilemmas of Identification: The Trader’s Dilemma Among Khorezmians in TashkentRano TuraevaChapter 14. Is Migrating a Rational Decision? Motives and Procedures of Qazaq RepatriationPeter FinkeChapter 15. Transnational Communities and Shifting Moral Values: Migrants Between the Netherlands and the MoluccasKeebet von Benda-BeckmannChapter 16. Multiscalar Social Relations of Dispossession and EmplacementNina Glick SchillerEpilogue: Emancipatory Cosmopolitanism or Global Neighbourhood?John R. Eidson, Echi Christina Gabbert, and Markus Virgil HoehneBiographic Interview with Günther SchleeMarkus Virgil HoehneAfterword: Charisma: Ethnographers and Their Host SocietiesIvo StreckerTo Günther Schlee, with Thanks …Abdullahi A. ShongoloPublished Works by Günther Schleecompiled by Viktoria Giehler-ZengIndex

“This is a comprehensive and substantial anthropological volume that successfully combines empirical research and theoretical debate.” • Magnus Treiber, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München