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Author : Paolo Tablino
Publisher : Paulines Publications Africa
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Camel herders
ISBN : 9789966214386
Author : John Colman Wood
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 0299165949
In this fascinating exploration of the cultural models of manhood, When Men Are Women examines the unique world of the nomadic Gabra people, a camel-herding society in northern Kenya. Gabra men denigrate women and feminine things, yet regard their most prestigious men as women. As they grow older, all Gabra men become d'abella, or ritual experts, who have feminine identities. Wood's study draws from structuralism, psychoanalytic theory, and anthropology to probe the meaning of opposition and ambivalence in Gabra society. When Men Are Women provides a multifaceted view of gender as a cultural construction independent of sex, but nevertheless fundamentally related to it. By turning men into women, the Gabra confront the dilemmas and ambiguities of social life. Wood demonstrates that the Gabra can provide illuminating insight into our own culture's understanding of gender and its function in society.
Author : Aneesa Kassam
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1994-12-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0823917606
Describes the history, culture, and economy of the Gabbra who live in East and Northeast Africa.
Author : Günther Schlee,Elizabeth E. Watson
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2009-10-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781845459574
Forms of group identity play a prominent role in everyday lives and politics in northeast Africa. Case studies from Sudan, Ethiopia, Uganda, and Kenya illustrate the way that identities are formed and change over time, and how local, national, and international politics are interwoven. Specific attention is paid to the impact of modern weaponry, new technologies, religious conversion, food and land shortages, international borders, civil war, and displacement on group identities. Drawing on the expertise of anthropologists, historians and geographers, these volumes provide a significant account of a society profoundly shaped by identity politics and contribute to a better understanding of the nature of conflict and war, and forms of alliance and peacemaking, thus providing a comprehensive portrait of this troubled region.
Author : Günther Schlee
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2010-03
Category : History
ISBN : 184545779X
In popular perception cultural differences or ethnic affiliation are factors that cause conflict or political fragmentation although this is not borne out by historical evidence. This book puts forward an alternative conflict theory. The author develops a decision theory which explains the conditions under which differing types of identification are preferred. Group identification is linked to competition for resources like water, territory, oil, political charges, or other advantages. Rivalry for resources can cause conflicts but it does not explain who takes whose side in a conflict situation. This book explores possibilities of reducing violent conflicts and ends with a case study, based on personal experience of the author, of conflict resolution. Günther Schlee was a Professor at Bielefeld until 1999. He currently is the director of the section Integration and Conflict at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle, focusing on Africa, Central Asia, and Europe. His publications include Identities on the Move: Clanship and Pastoralism in Northern Kenya (International African Institute, 1989), How Enemies are Made (Berghahn, 2008), Rendille Proverbs in their Social and legal Context (with Karaba Sahado) and Boran Proverbs in their Cultural Context (with Abdullahi Shongolo) (both Cologne: Rüdiger Köppe).
Author : Gísli Pálsson
Publisher : Nordic Africa Institute
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9171063137
Author : Paul Tablino
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:475668651
Author : Nderitu, Alice Wairimu
Publisher : Mdahalo Bridging Divides
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2018-12-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789966190314
The National Cohesion and Integration Commission (NCIC) was set up to facilitate and promote equality of opportunity, good relations, harmony and peaceful coexistence between persons of the different ethnic and racial communities of Kenya, and to advise the Government on all aspects thereof after the violence that followed the December 2007 elections. In Kenya, Bridging Ethnic Divides: A Commissioner’s Experience on Cohesion and Integration, Commissioner Alice Wairimũ Nderitũ looks behind the scenes at the NCIC’s efforts to ensure peaceful co-existence. Such as, working with elders, mediating confidentially between political leaders at the highest levels and co-founding and working as first Co-Chair of Uwiano Platform for Peace, a conflict prevention agency largely credited with leading efforts in ensuring peaceful processes during the 2010 Constitutional referendum and 2013 General elections. The book tells of NCIC’s efforts in grappling with the seemingly intractable problem of managing the negative consequence of ethnic differences on questions such as: Why is Kenya so ethnically polarised? Why is an ethnic group the key defining factor in Kenyan politics? What hope is there for an inclusive Kenya? The book shows that positive policies and intra- and inter-ethnic spaces can be used to counter negative influences that lead to fear, exclusion and violence. The diversity of Kenya’s ethnicities and races need not be a pretext for conflict, but a source of truly national identity. It proves that dialogue on understanding differences and commonalities leads to improved relationships and understanding on societal dynamics. This in turn, contributes to preventing and transforming conflicts through appropriate inclusion policies, identifying entry points for change as well as opportunities to tackle the norms and behaviours that underpin structural disparities.
Author : Serena Heckler
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780857456137
In recent years, the field of study variously called local, indigenous or traditional environmental knowledge (TEK) has experienced a crisis brought about by the questioning of some of its basic assumptions. This has included reassessing notions that scientific methods can accurately elicit and describe TEK or that incorporating it into development projects will improve the physical, social or economic well-being of marginalized peoples. The contributors to this volume argue that to accurately and appropriately describe TEK, the historical and political forces that have shaped it, as well as people's day-to-day engagement with the landscape around them must be taken into account. TEK thus emerges, not as an easily translatable tool for development experts, but as a rich and complex element of contemporary lives that should be defined and managed by indigenous and local peoples themselves.
Author : Georgina Zuvela
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781499028966
Rosko Krystoffe lives in South Africa in 2084 when a civil war breaks out in the city of Paragonia. The Paragon people are driven away and embark on a journey of survival. Rosko meets the Gabra Shi in a speleothem cave where she reveals the mystery and purpose of his existence. Gretchen Tousard is Roskos potential bride. She is also torn from her loved ones and loses track of them. On her journey fraught with danger she escapes the civil war in Paragonia. When she is compelled to sail to Montenegro where she finds Rosko once more. He discovers Gerald Topovskis evil plan to manipulate the worlds resources through SEV.
Author : John G. McPeak,Peter D. Little,Cheryl R. Doss
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2011-07-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136650789
Pastoralists’ role in contemporary Africa typically goes underappreciated and misunderstood by development agencies, external observers, and policymakers. Yet, arid and semi-arid lands (ASAL), which are used predominantly for extensive livestock grazing, comprise nearly half of the continent’s land mass, while a substantial proportion of national economies are based on pastoralist activities. Pastoralists use these drylands to generate income for themselves through the use of livestock and for the coffers of national trade and revenue agencies. They are frequently among the continent’s most contested and lawless regions, providing sanctuary to armed rebel groups and exposing residents to widespread insecurity and destructive violence. The continent’s millions of pastoralists thus inhabit some of Africa’s harshest and most remote, but also most ecologically, economically, and politically important regions. This study summarizes the findings of a multi-year interdisciplinary research project in pastoral areas of Kenya and Ethiopia. The cultures and ecology of these areas are described, with a particular focus on the myriad risks that confront people living in these drylands, and how these risks are often triggered by highly variable rainfall conditions. The authors examine the markets used by residents of these areas to sell livestock and livestock products and purchase consumer goods before turning to an analysis of evolving livelihood strategies. Furthermore, they focus on how well-being is conditioned upon access to livestock and access to the cash economy, gender patterns within households and the history of development activities in the area. The book concludes with a report on how these activities are assessed by people in the area and what activities they prioritize for the future. Policy in pastoral areas is often formulated on the basis of assumptions and stereotypes, without adequate empirical foundations. This book provides evidence on livelihood strategies being followed in pastoral areas, and investigates patterns in decision making and well being. It indicates the importance of livestock to the livelihoods of people in these areas, and identifies the critical and widespread importance of access to the cash economy, concluding that future development activities need to be built on the foundation of the livestock economy, instead of seeking to replace it.
Author : International Livestock Centre for Africa
Publisher : ILRI (aka ILCA and ILRAD)
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1977-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Kjetil Tronvoll,Tobias Hagmann
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2011-12-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789004218437
Drawing on nine case studies, this book offers a comparative ethnography of the contested powers that shape democratization in Ethiopia. Focusing on the competitive 2005 elections, the authors analyze how customary leaders, political parties and state officials confronted each other during election time.
Author : Mary Jo Arnoldi,Kris L. Hardin
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1996-04-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253116635
"This volume has much to recommend it -- providing fascinating and stimulating insights into many arenas of material culture, many of which still remain only superficially explored in the archaeological literature." -- Archaeological Review "... a vivid introduction to the topic.... A glimpse into the unique and changing identities in an ever-changing world." -- Come-All-Ye Fourteen interdisciplinary essays open new perspectives for understanding African societies and cultures through the contextualized study of objects, treating everything from the production of material objects to the meaning of sticks, masquerades, household tools, clothing, and the television set in the contemporary repertoire of African material culture.
Author : Christopher Brendan Barrett,Andrew G. Mude,John Omiti
Publisher : CABI
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781845932701
There has been broad agreement in recent years that decentralization is key in achieving democracy at local level. Examining the successes, failures, possibilities and limitations of efforts across rural Kenya, this book analyses the socioeconomic and institutional prerequisites for successful decentralization, and the role of community groups and producer organizations in reducing poverty and promoting empowerment. Original empirical studies explore the fundamental elements of coherent, inclusive and ultimately effective decentralization, and how these can be applied to efforts across the African continent and beyond.