"Most of the chapters of this volume come from a larger collection of papers produced for a conference held in 2000 under the auspices of the Research Programme 'Poverty and Prosperity in Africa: Local and Global Perspectives' at the Nordic Africa Institute, Uppsala, Sweden"--Pref. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Ambiguous identities, notion of war and "significant others" among the Tigreans of Ethiopia / Kjetil Tronvoll. "Nowadays they can even kill you for that which they feel is theirs" / Amrik Heyer -- Conflicts in context, political violence and anthropological puzzles / Harri Englund -- Hunger, violence and the moral economy of war in Zimbabwe / Jocelyn Alexander, Jo Ann McGregor -- Violence and the boundaries of belonging, comparing two border disputes in the South African lowveld / Isak Niehaus -- Fertile moral links, reconsidering Barabaig violence / Astrid Blystad -- "Food itself is fighting with us," a comparative analysis of the impact of Sudan's civil war on south Sudanese civilian populations located in the north and the south / Sharon Elaine Hutchinson -- The politics of identity and the remembrance of violence and gender at the installation of a female chief in Zimbabwe / Björn Lindgren -- Double-voiced violence in Kenya / John G. Galaty -- Escape from genocide, the politics of identity in Rwanda's massacres / Johan Pottier -- Women and the politics of identity, voices in the South African Truth and Reconciliation / Fiona C Ross -- Ambiguous identities, notion of war and "significant others" among the Tigreans of Ethiopia / Kjetil Tronvoll.
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