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.

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Preface

Acknowledgements

List of Acronyms

Introduction: the Regional Setting of Ethnic Identification and Ethnic Conflict

PART I: THEORY AND METHODOLOGY

Chapter 1. Theoretical Orientation and Arguments

PART II: THE CONTRAST

Chapter 2. The Anywaa Primordialist Ethnic Identity Formation
Chapter 3. The Nuer Constructivist Ethnic Identity Formation

PART III: THE ENCOUNTER

Chapter 4.In the Riverine Lands
Chapter 5. The Cultural Contestation
Chapter 6.Differential Incorporation into the Ethiopian State
Chapter 7. The Anywaa Response to Ethiopian Ethnic Federalism
Chapter 8. The Nuer Response to Ethiopian Ethnic Federalism
Chapter 9. Civil War in the Sudan and Ethnic Processes in the Gambella Region

Conclusion: Modes of Ethnic Identification

Glossary of Local Terms

References

Index