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The mask of anarchy : the destruction of Liberia and the religious dimension of an African civil war (1999)
S. Ellis
Type of publication: Book

This study of the civil war in Liberia is organized in two sections. The first, which is presented in the form of a chronicle, recounts the history of the Liberian war which began in 1989. Chapters 1 and 2 retrace the course of events at different levels of society, while at...

Keywords: civil war, Country, history, identity, Liberia, politics, violence
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Natural Resources in Liberia's War Economy (1999)
S. Ellis
Type of publication: Conference Paper
In: Paper presented at the 'African Affairs' seminar
Added to database: 23 December 2011

War and Business in Liberia (1999)
S. Ellis
Type of publication: Conference Paper
In: Paper presented on 'War study day', African Studies Centre
Keywords: African studies
Added to database: 23 December 2011

A Golden Age of Archives (1999)
S. Ellis
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: NVAS Nieuwsbrief
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Afrika veranderd fundamenteel door Oorlogen (1999)
S. Ellis
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: NRC Handelsblad
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Geen echte vrede in Sierra Leone (1999)
S. Ellis
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: Trouw
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Relatie rijke landen en Afrika in impasse (1999)
S. Ellis
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: NRC Handelsblad
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Westen is in Afrika blind voor de waarheid (1999)
S. Ellis
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: NRC Handelsblad
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Mafias, milices, le crime et l'Etat en Afrique (1999)
S. Ellis
Editors: M. Serceau
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Panoramiques: l'enfer des mafias
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Vérité sans réconciliation en Afrique du Sud (1999)
S. Ellis
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: Critique Internationale
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Staatsinrichting in Afrika : import of eigen kweek? (1999)
S. Ellis
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: Internationale spectator : tijdschrift voor internationale politiekInternationale spectator

Ondanks economische hervormingen sinds circa 1980 en politieke sinds 1989/1990 lijden vele Afrikaanse landen nog steeds aan wanbeheer van de overheidssector. Vaak krijgt de koloniale geschiedenis, met kunstmatige grenzen en overdracht van staatsinstellingen, de schuld van...

Keywords: Africa, political systems
Open access: Full text
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The production of 'primitiveness' and identity : Surma-tourist interactions (1999)
G.J. Abbink
Editors: R. Fardon; R.A. van Dijk; W.M.J. van Binsbergen
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Modernity on a shoestring : dimensions of globalization, consumption and development in Africa and beyond

Tourism is an "advance column" of globalization and a contagious consumer identity par excellence. Tourists are the consumers of images of "authentic experience" and of "exoticism" that are carefully screened and constructed and that function as...

Keywords: Africa, Ethiopia, identity, images, Suri, tourism
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Paradoxes of Power and Culture in an Old Periphery: Surma 1974-1998 (1999)
G.J. Abbink
Type of publication: Conference Paper
In: Paper presented at seminar 'Ethiopia and its Peripheries', Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Oxford University, 8-11 September 1999
Keywords: Ethiopia
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Regional Variation in the Cultural Systems of Southern Ethiopia (1999)
G.J. Abbink
Type of publication: Conference Paper
In: Invited session chairman and presentation of the paper 'Surmic - Omotic Interactions: Constructions of Power and Authority', Harris Manchester College, Oxford University, UK, 5-6 January 1999
Keywords: Ethiopia
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Artifacts as 'daily art' in Me'en culture: the life and work of Bogine Shala and Gelta Foroshowa (1999)
G.J. Abbink
Editors: R.A. Silverman
Type of publication: Book Chapter
Keywords: Ethiopia, material culture, Me'en, Mekan
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Doing justice to Clastres (1999)
G.J. Abbink
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: Anthropology Today
Open access: Full text
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Surmic bibliography (1999)
G.J. Abbink; P. Unseth
Editors: G.J. Dimmendaal; M. Last
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Surmic Languages and Cultures
Added to database: 23 December 2011

The Elusive Chief: Authority and Leadership in Surma Society (Ethiopia) (1999)
G.J. Abbink
Editors: E.A.B. van Rouveroy van Nieuwaal; R.A. van Dijk
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: African Chieftaincy in a New Socio-Political Landscape
Keywords: chieftaincy, Ethiopia, Subsaharan Africa
Open access: Full text
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Ethiopian Islam and the Challenge of Diversity (1999)
G.J. Abbink
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: ISIM Newsletter
Keywords: Islam
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Violence, ritual, and reproduction : culture and context in Surma dueling (1999)
G.J. Abbink
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: Ethnology

Through a study of the ceremonial stick duelling among the Surma of southern Ethiopia, this article explores the sociocultural context of ritual violence in a small-scale agropastoralist society and its relation to social reproductive concerns. Surma male stick duelling (...

Keywords: Ethiopia, games, southern ethiopia, Suri, violence
Open access: Full text
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