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Studying conflict and violence in Africa: some notes from an anthropological perspective (1997)
G.J. Abbink
Type of publication: Conference Paper
In: Paper presented at the seminar Methodological Approaches to the Study of Conflict in Africa, African Studies Centre, Leiden, 24 September 1997
Keywords: Africa, African studies, violence
Added to database: 23 December 2011

The production of "primitiveness" and identity: Surma - tourist interactions (1997)
G.J. Abbink
Type of publication: Conference Paper
In: Paper presented at the Globalisation, Development and the Making of Consumers conference, The Hague, 13-15 March 1997
Keywords: identity
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Violence and culture: anthropological and evolutionary-psychological reflections on Surma society (Ethiopia) (1997)
G.J. Abbink
Type of publication: Conference Paper
In: Paper presented at the World Congress on Violence and Human Co-Existence, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland, 12-17 August 1997
Keywords: Ethiopia, violence
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Competing practices of drinking and power : alcoholic 'hegemonism'in southern Ethiopia (1997)
G.J. Abbink
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: Northeast African Studies

This paper focuses on problems and dilemmas of changing alcohol use among the Surma, a group of lowland agropastoralists in Maji, southern Ethiopia. The area under discussion is inhabited by indigenous agriculturalists, descendants of northern immigrants of mixed origin, and...

Keywords: alcoholic beverages, Ethiopia, Me'en, social conflicts, Suri
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Het Surma stokduel : sport en ritueel geweld (1997)
G.J. Abbink
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: De Baboab

De 'nationale sport' onder de Surma in zuidwestelijk Ethiopië is het stokduel tussen jonge, ongetrouwde mannen. De wedstrijden worden gehouden gedurende 4 à 6 weken in een rustige periode na de oogst. De deelnemende vechters zijn afkomstig uit de verschillende...

Keywords: Ethiopia, games, sports, Suri
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The shrinking cultural and political space of East African pastoral societies (1997)
G.J. Abbink
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: Nordic journal of African studies

The relation of pastoral societies with the 'outside world' has proved to be one of structural deterioration. This poses questions as to the political space remaining for these societies within the State arenas to which they nominally belong and the nature of their...

Keywords: Africa, Boran, Ethiopia, identity, Kenya, mobility, Nuer, pastoralists, social structure, southern ethiopia, Sudan, Suri
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Territory, space and state among the Suri: changes in an Ethiopian periphery, 1977-1997 (1997)
G.J. Abbink
Editors: F. Fukui; E. Kurimoto; M. Shigeta
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Ethiopia in Broader Perspective
Keywords: Ethiopia
Added to database: 23 December 2011

The myth of Tishana "kingship": ideological reflections of socio-economic change (1997)
G.J. Abbink
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: Anthropos
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Violence, ritual, and reproduction : Surma ceremonial dueling as a construction of sociality and sexuality (1997)
G.J. Abbink
Editors: K. Fukui; E. Kurimoto; M. Shigeta
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Ethiopia in Broader Perspective
Keywords: Ethiopia, violence
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Staatsomvorming in Afrika (1997)
G.J. Abbink
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: Internationale spectator : tijdschrift voor internationale politiekInternationale spectator

In deze bijdrage wordt in enkele algemene lijnen geponeerd dat de noodzaak tot staatsomvorming in Afrika voor het komende decennium prioriteit nummer één is. De rol van buitenlandse mogendheden en organisaties kan daarbij belangrijk zijn, maar moet niet worden overschat....

Keywords: Africa, political change, state
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Ethnicity and constitutionalism in contemporary Ethiopia (1997)
G.J. Abbink
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: Journal of African law

According to the policy of the government of the Ethiopian Peoples' Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF), ethnic identity is the ideological basis of Ethiopia's political organization and administration and as such has been enshrined in the Federal Constitution of...

Keywords: 1994, constitutions, Ethiopia, ethnicity, identity, policy, politics
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De ingebeelde EU - vorm als inhoud van de Europese Unie (1997)
G.J. Abbink
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: Facta
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Visuele etnografie - theorie, methoden en mogelijkheden (1997)
G.J. Abbink; D. Nijland
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: Facta
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Authority and leadership in Surma society (Ethiopia) (1997)
G.J. Abbink
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: Africa : journal of the International African InstituteAfrica

This article examines recent developments of local authority and 'leadership' among the Surma of southern Ethiopia, where the author carried out field research over the years 1990-1995. The intention is to analyse the nature of 'authority' in a non-State...

Keywords: chieftaincy, Ethiopia, southern ethiopia, Suri
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Afrika bezuiden de Sahara (1997)
G.J. Abbink
Editors: H.D. Driessen
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: In het huis van de islam: geografie, geschiedenis, geloofsleer, cultuur, economie, politiek

In Afrika bezuiden de Sahara heeft de islam een bijzonder complexe en rijke geschiedenis. De auteur schetst deze geschiedenis vanaf 615, wanneer de Profeet een groot deel van zijn volgelingen naar Ethiopië stuurt, tot de hedendaagse periode van mondialisering, waarin de islam...

Keywords: Islam, Islamic history, Subsaharan Africa
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Environmental management research and training in Coast Province, Kenya (1997)
Editors: J.C. Hoorweg
Type of publication: Book

The natural environment of the Kenyan coast is threatened in many ways. A study day was organized on August 7, 1996, by the School of Environmental Studies, Moi University, Eldoret, with presentations on the activities and research priorities of organizations concerned with...

Keywords: 1996, conference papers (form), environment, environmental policy, Kenya
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Antagonisme et solidarité : les relations entre Peuls et Dogons du Mali central (1997)
M.E. de Bruijn; W.E.A. van Beek; J.W.M. van Dijk
Editors: M.E. de Bruijn; J.W.M. van Dijk
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Peuls et Mandingues: Dialectique des constructions identitaires
Keywords: 1995, conference papers (form), Dogon, ethnic relations, Fulani, Mali, Manding, West Africa
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Introduction : Peuls et Mandingues : Dialectique des constructions identitaires (1997)
M.E. de Bruijn; J.W.M. van Dijk
Editors: M.E. de Bruijn; J.W.M. van Dijk
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Peuls et Mandingues : dialectique des constructions identitaires, Karthala en Afrika-studiecentrum
Keywords: 1995, conference papers (form), ethnic relations, Fulani, Manding, West Africa
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Rural enterprises in Malawi : necessity or opportunity? (1997)
N. Tellegen
Type of publication: Book

The past few decades have shown an increasing awareness of the importance of small-scale enterprises for the livelihood of rural Africans and the role of these nonagricultural activities in the economic development of rural areas. This book examines the development of rural...

Keywords: economic development
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Trading the fruits of the land : horticultural marketing channels in Kenya (1997)
T. Dijkstra
Type of publication: Book

This study analyses the structure and development of horticultural marketing channels in Kenya. It is based primarily on a farm survey among some 500 farmers in Nyandarua, Kisii and Taita Taveta Districts, and a trade survey of about 750 horticultural traders in 18 different...

Keywords: horticulture, Kenya, marketing
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