Prof. Dr G.J. Abbink

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Main researcher

Theme group:		head SMPC theme group
Focus:		Djibouti; Eritrea; Ethiopia; Somalia; Sudan
Telephone:		+31 (0)71 527 3367
Fax:		+31 (0)71 527 3344
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Jon Abbink is an anthropologist and carries out research on the history and cultures of the Horn of Africa, in particular Ethiopia. His current projects are a historical-cultural study of the relation between political change and ethnicity in Ethiopia, South Ethiopian ethno-history, and a study of violence and culture among south-western Ethiopian ethnic groups. He is also professor (extraord.) of African ethnic studies at the Vrije Universiteit (Amsterdam), where he gave his inaugural lecture in 2001.

4 Projects

& List of publications

Key publications

G.J. Abbink
Religion in public spaces: emerging Muslim–Christian polemics in Ethiopia
African Affairs 110(439), 2011, pp. 253-274.
Abstract and full text (PDF) on afraf.oxfordjournals.org

G.J. Abbink
'The Ethiopian second republic and the fragile 'social contract'.
In: Afrika Spectrum, vol. 44, no. 2, pp. 3-28, 2009.

G.J. Abbink
'Law against reality? Contextualizing the Ethiopian-Eritrean border problem.'
In: Harry Post & Gabriella Venturini Andrea de Guttry (ed.) In: The 1998-2000 War Between Eritrea and Ethiopia: An International Legal Perspective, The Hague/ Cambridge: The Hague: T.M.C. Asser Press - Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009, pp. 141-158, 2009.

G.J. Abbink
'Culture slipping away: violence, social tension and personal drama in Suri society, southern Ethiopia.'
In: M.Bollig & M.Böck A.Rao (ed.) The Practice of War. Production, Reproduction and Communication of Armed Violence, Oxford: Berghahn, pp. 53-72, 2007.

G. Aijmer and G.J. Abbink
Meanings of violence : a cross cultural perspective
Oxford [etc.]: Berg, 2000.
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