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Pastoralism and Politics in Northern Kenya and Southern Ethiopia

Author: Abdullahi A. Shongolo, Guenther Schlee, Gunther Schlee
SKU: 9781847011299

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This study, based on anthropological field research over a period of thirty-four years, focuses on pastoralism, politics, policies and development in northern Kenya and southern Ethiopia. The authors present a detailed ethnographic view of recent events of ethnic violence in Kenya and analyse how local patterns of conflict among pastoralists were influenced by both national and regional politics, which have encouraged an increased tendency of territorialized ethnicity. They propose ways of getting out of the ethnic trap and revitalizing a mobile livestock economy in a region where other forms of land use are impossible or much less effective.

A companion volume to Islam and Ethnicity in Northern Kenya and Southern Ethiopia, it will be of particular interest to political anthropologists, students of nomadism, pastoral economy ecology, and globalization. Gunther Schlee is director of the Department of ‘Integration and Conflict’, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle, Germany; Abdullahi Shongolo is an independent scholar based in Kenya.

  • Classifications: Ethiopia,
  • Readership:Professional & Vocational
  • Format: Paperback softback 192 pages, 3 Line drawings, black and white; 9 Illustrations, black and white

ISBN : 9781847011299

Published : 17 Sep 2015

Author : Abdullahi A. Shongolo, Guenther Schlee, Gunther Schlee

Main Material : Paperback softback

Publisher : James Currey

Size : 142 x 217 x 16 (mm)

Weight : 250g

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