Playing Different Games

Dereje Feyissa was a 21st Century Centre of Excellence Fellow in the Department of Anthropology, Osaka University, from 2003 to 2005, and a Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle from 2005 to 2008. He has lectured on Ethiopian history and politics at Alemaya University and at the Institute of Ethiopian Studies, Addis Ababa University in Ethiopia, and on Social Anthropology at Martin Luther University and the University of Bayreuth in Germany. Currently, Dereje is a Humboldt Fellow for Experienced Researchers at the University of Bayreuth. His publications focus on social inequality, identity and conflict, ethnic groups and the state, customary institutions of conflict resolution, Islam in contemporary Ethiopia and the political economy of development.

• List of Figures and Tables          PrefaceAcknowledgementsList of Acronyms           Introduction: the Regional Setting of Ethnic Identification and Ethnic ConflictPART I: THEORY AND METHODOLOGYChapter 1. Theoretical Orientation and ArgumentsPART II: THE CONTRASTChapter 2. The Anywaa Primordialist Ethnic Identity FormationChapter 3. The Nuer Constructivist Ethnic Identity FormationPART III: THE ENCOUNTERChapter 4.In the Riverine LandsChapter 5. The Cultural ContestationChapter 6.Differential Incorporation into the Ethiopian StateChapter 7. The Anywaa Response to Ethiopian Ethnic FederalismChapter 8. The Nuer Response to Ethiopian Ethnic FederalismChapter 9. Civil War in the Sudan and Ethnic Processes in the Gambella Region           Conclusion: Modes of Ethnic Identification           Glossary of Local TermsReferencesIndex

"[A]n ethnographically rich, historically meticulous, theoretically informed analysis of ethnic conflict in a strategically important area of Africa. It shows the value of multi-sited methodologies that bring international, national and regional levels to bear upon the analysis of Africa’s new, civil wars.”  ·  Stephen Reyna, University of Manchester