Wheel of Autonomy

Felix Girke is a social/cultural anthropologist and a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Konstanz, Germany. His publications include the edited volumes Ethiopian Images of Self and Other (UVHW, 2014) and The Rhetorical Emergence of Culture (Berghahn Books, 2011). He currently studies the politics of cultural heritage in Myanmar.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: How Do They Do It?Chapter 1. A Rhetorical Approach to Groups and EthnicityChapter 2. Categories of Being KaraChapter 3. Ethnicity within Kara: The Demotion of the BogudoChapter 4. The Moguji: All That Is Not KaraChapter 5. The Schism and Other Predicaments of the MogujiChapter 6. The Regional Other in the Cultural NeighbourhoodChapter 7. South Omo in Kara TermsChapter 8. The Cleverness of the KaraChapter 9. Seeing like a TribeConclusionGlossary of Non-English TermsGlossary of Places and PeopleReferencesIndex

“This finely crafted book on a remarkable people is a welcome addition to Ethiopian studies, ethnic studies, and African social anthropology, and of theoretical interest to social scientists who want to know more about rhetoric theory as relevant in a ‘non-Western’ setting.” • JRAI“This is a superb book, which regarding theories of culture, the epistemology of ethnographic research, and the evolution of our understanding of South Omo societies is path-breaking… The writing is fresh, clear and evocative.” • John G. Galaty, McGill University