Jan Abbink
Jan Abbink is an anthropologist-historian and carries out research on the history and cultures of the Horn of Africa (Northeast Africa), particularly Ethiopia. He is Professor Emeritus of Politics and Governance in Africa at Leiden University.
He has done a number of research projects, the first one being a study of Ethiopian immigrants in Israel in the 1980s. His current projects are a socio-cultural history of South Ethiopia, an historical-cultural study of the relation between governance, political culture and religious discourse, and an ethnological study of southwest Ethiopian ethnic groups, livelihoods and conflict. He is also interested in theoretical and epistemological issues in social science.
Since 2001 Jan Abbink has been Professor (extraordinary) of African Ethnic Studies at the VU University in Amsterdam.
Keywords: Africa, political culture, religious discourse and politics, ethnography of food cultures, governance and development, cultural history.
Prof. Dr. G.J. Abbink's profile on the Leiden University website
Politics, governance and law in Africa: Exploring connections
Rethinking African history
Developmental dilemmas and political culture in Ethiopia and the Horn: local refractions of state policies
Evolving relations between religion and politics in the Horn of Africa: media use and public identity discourse of religious communities/elites in Northeast Africa
Routledge handbook of the Horn of Africa (2022)
The looming spectre: a history of the ‘state of emergency’ in Ethiopia, 1970s–2021 (2022)
Introduction: authoritarianism, innovative regimes, and forms of resistance (2022)
Research in 2020 (2021)
Review of F. Girke, "The wheel of autonomy: rhetoric and ethnicity in the Omo Valley" (Oxford, New York : Berghahn books, 2018) (2021)
Flashback — conflict in Tigray: reflections on cause and effects (2021)
The Ethiopian June 2021 elections: a step to political normality? (2021)
Kijk eens naar Ethiopië zonder neokoloniale bril (2021)
Ethiopia’s elections are needed. But they face credibility challenges (2021)
The Tigray conflict in Ethiopia: post-war ramifications and international response (2021)
Somalia (2021)
Power relations in Suri: rhetoric in public speech and Action 283 (2021)
How do agro-pastoralists cope with climate change? : the case of the Nyangatom in the Lower Omo Valley of Ethiopia (2021)
Somalia (2021)
Introduction: Rhetoric and social relations (2021)
The Atlantic Community mistake on Ethiopia: counter-productive statements and data-poor policy of the EU and the USA on the Tigray conflict (2021)
Law and politics in the Ethiopian-Eritrean border dispute, 2002–2019 (2021)
The Ethiopia conflict in international relations and global media discourse (2021)
Ethiopia (2021)
'Tendency to demonise Ethiopia and give free pass to TPLF is false narrative’ (2021)
Refocusing the Ethiopia conflict: grave doubts about the narratives of ‘humanitarian blockade’ and ‘Tigray genocide’. (2021)
Aïcha Haddad's work of dreams and memories (2021)
The politics of conflict in Northern Ethiopia, 2020-2021: a study of war-making, media bias and policy struggle (2021)
On “good governance”: towards reconciling state and vernacular views in Southwest Ethiopia. (2020)
Review of: Kings of disaster: dualism, centralism and the scapegoat king in Southeastern Sudan (2nd ed., Kampala: Fountain Publishers - East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2017). (2020)
Zeven factoren bepalen de politieke vooruitzichten in Afrika (2020)
Religion and violence in the Horn of Africa: trajectories of mimetic rivalry and escalation between ‘political Islam’ and the state. (2020)
Somalia (2020)
Ethiopia (2020)
Subjects of history: administrative categories, ethnic labels, and the limits of cultural citizenship in Ethiopia (2020)
Ethiopia (2019)
Ethiopia’s successes under Abiy Ahmed constrained by ethnic divisions (2019)
Political breakthrough in Ethiopia? : prime minister Abiy Ahmed’s reformist agenda (2019)
An unknown chapter : Israel’s re-emerging relations with Africa (2019)
The environmental crunch in Africa : growth narratives vs. local realities (2018)
Losing the plot: environmental problems and livelihood strife in developing rural Ethiopia-Suri agropastoralism vs. state resource use (2018)
Introduction: promise and peril in Africa-growth narratives vs. local environmental problems (2018)
Die Walaytta (2018)
Die Kafa (2018)
Review of Susanne Epple: "The Bashada of Southern Ethiopia: a study of age, gender and social discourse" (Cologne: University of Rochester Press, 2010) (2018)
Ethiopia plans for new prime minister, but crisis has deep challenges (2018)
National parks (2018)
Die Völker Äthiopiens - ein Überblick (2018)
Conferencing in Ethiopia: no politically correct bla-bla (2018)
Die Klima (2018)
Governance in Africa: more than political and economic "management" (2018)
Eastern Africa (2018)
Review of James de Lorenzi, 'Guardians of the tradition: historians and historical writing in Ethiopia and Eritrea" (Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2015) (2018)
The religious soundscape of Ethiopia: 'noise' production between sacred and secular spaces (2018)
Africa Yearbook 2017 : politics, economy and society South of the Sahara (2018)
Ethiopia (2018)
Somalia (2018)
Development in rural Ethiopia (2018)
Seychelles (2018)
Sub-Saharan Africa (2018)
Niger (2018)
Introduction : peoples in Ethiopia (2017)
Walaytta (2017)
Climate (2017)
Review of Gérard Prunier and Éloi Ficquet (eds.), 'Contemporary Ethiopia : monarchy, revolution and the legacy of Meles Zenawi" (London : C. Hurst, 2015) (2017)
Review of Zeleke Eresso, 'Faith at the crossroads : religious syncretism and dispute settlement in Northern Ethiopia. A study of Sufe shrine in North Eastern Ethiopia" Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz, 2015) (2017)
Review of Patrick Desplat and Terje Østebø, 'Muslim Ethiopia : the Christian legacy, identity politics and Islamic reformism" London : Palgrave-Macmillan, 2013) (2017)
Etiyopya'da Islam ve sosyokültürel çesitlilik = Ethiopian Islam and socio-cultural diversity (2017)
Obituary: Richard Keir Pethick Pankhurst (1927-2017) (2017)
Sub-Saharan Africa (2017)
Ethiopia (2017)
Africa Yearbook 2016 : politics, economy and society South of the Sahara (2017)
Somalia (2017)
Seychelles (2017)
Stemming the tide? : the promise of environmental rehabilitation scenarios in Ethiopia (2017)
"Wie est eigentlich gewesen..." : Eike Haberland's Rankean approach to Southern Ethiopian cultures and iets legacy today (2017)
Paradoxes of electoral authoritarianism : the 2015 Ethiopian elections as hegemonic performance (2017)
A decade of Ethiopia : politics, economy and society 2004-2016 (2017)
Traditional Ethiopian legal culture : Amharic proverbs and maxims on law and justice (2017)
Insecure food: diet, eating and identity among the Ethiopian Suri people in the age of development (2017)
Ethiopian-Eritrean studies: a bibliography on society and history, 2010-2015 (2016)
The cross in Ethiopian Christianity: ecclesial symbolism and religious experience (2016)
Africa Yearbook 2015 : politics, economy and society South of the Sahara (2016)
Rethinking the anthropology of Ethiopia through culture and ritual (2016)
Ethiopia's stalemate "election" hinders generational change (2015)
Contestation as claim to integration: the May 2015 public protest movement of Ethiopian Israelis (2015)
The Ethiopian revolution after 40 years (1974-2014) : plan B in progress? (2015)
Menstrual synchrony claims among Suri girls (Southwest Ethiopia) ; between culture and biology (2015)
Extensions of the self : artistry and identity in the headrests and stools of Southwest Ethiopian peoples (2015)
Languages and peoples in Ethiopia and Eritrea (2014)
Religious freedom and the political order: the Ethiopian 'secular state' and the containment of Muslim identity politics (2014)
Lands of the future: transforming pastoral lands and livelihoods in Eastern Africa (2014)
Stabiele instabiliteit : Somalië, Al Shabaab en de wijdere regio (2014)
Religion and politics in Africa : the future of "the secular" (2014)
Somalia (2014)
Suri orature : introduction to the society, language and oral culture of the Suri people (Southwest Ethiopia) (2013)
From my perspective as a Suri - narratives on Suri life: introduction (2013)
Introduction to the society and history of the Suri people (2013)
The anthropology of Ethiopia 1999-2011 : highlights and trends (2013)
Somalia (2013)
Ethiopia (2013)
Eureka! : discovery during ethnographic fieldwork (2013)
Dam controversies: contested governance and developmental discourse on the Ethiopian Omo River dam (2012)
Fractures and reconnections : civic action and the redefinition of African political and economic spaces : studies in honour of Piet J.J. Konings (2012)
The anthropology of elites: power, culture, and the complexities of distinction (2012)
De Hoorn van Afrika als regionale (on)veiligheidszone: conflicten en dilemma's (2012)
Revolte en revolutie in de 'Arabische Lente' : duurzame politieke klimaatverandering? (2012)
Ethnic-based federalism and ethnicity in Ethiopia : reassessing the experiment after 20 years (2011)
Democracy deferred : understanding elections and the role of donors in Ethiopia (2011)
De politiek-maatschappelijke context van een terugkerend probleem (2011)
'Land to the foreigners': economic, legal, and socio-cultural aspects of new land acquisition schemes in Ethiopia (2011)
Land, law and politics in Africa : mediating conflict and reshaping the state (2011)
Religion in public spaces: emerging Muslim-Christian polemics in Ethiopia (2011)
Democracy deferred : understanding elections and the role of donors in Ethiopia (2011)
Review of: W. James: "War and survival in Sudan's frontier lands: voices from the Blue Nile" (2011)
Political culture in Ethiopia: a balance sheet of post-1991 ethnically-based federalism (2010)
Review of H. Amborn, 'Flexibel aus Tradition: Burji in Äthiopien und Kenia. Unter Verwending der Aufzeichnungen von Helmut Straube. With Explanation of Some Cultural Items in English' (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2009) (2010)
Review of G. Verswijver & H. Silvester 'Omo People and Design' (Paris - Tervuren: Éditions de La Martinière - Royal Museum for Central Africa, 2008) (2010)
Elections in Africa, 1991-2009: Ways to democracy or breeding grounds for conflict? (2010)
24 entries in S. Uhlig (ed.), Encyclopaedia Aethiopia, vol. 4 (O-Z) (2010)
Berhanu Gebeyehu, 24 December 1964 - 19 July 2010 (2010)
Somalia (2010)
Ethiopia (2010)
A Bibliography of Ethiopian-Eritrean Studies in Society and History, 1995-2010 (2010)
Introduction to the ASC Library web dossier 'Elections in Africa between hope and reality' (2009)
The fate of the Suri: conflict and group tension on the Southwest Ethiopian frontier (2009)
Somalische piraten - het zijn geen Robin Hoods (2009)
Suri images: the return of exoticism and the commodification of an Ethiopian "tribe" (2009)
Review of A. Honwana & F. de Boeck, 'Makers and breakers. Children and youth in Postcolonial Africa' (2009)
Transformations de l'Islam et relations communautaires dans la province de Wallo, en Éthiopie. (2009)
Ethiopia (2009)
Law against reality? Contextualizing the Ethiopian-Eritrean border problem. (2009)
The Ethiopian second republic and the fragile 'social contract'. (2009)
Conflict and social change on the south-west Ethiopian frontier: an analysis of Suri society. (2009)
Tourism and its discontents: Suri-Tourist encounters in southern Ethiopia. (2009)
The Islamic Courts Union: the ebb and flow of a Somali Islamist movement (2009)
Revolution as warfare in the Horn of Africa (review article) (2009)
Somalia (2009)
Verdeeld Afrika : etniciteit, conflict en de grenzen van de staat. (2008)
"Cannibalism" in Southern Ethiopia: an exploratory study of Me'en discourse. (2008)
Muslim monasteries? Some aspects of religious culture in Northern Ethiopia (2008)
Verdeeld Afrika. Etniciteit, conflict en de grenzen van de staat (2008)
Dilemmas of development : conflicts of interest and their resolutions in modernizing Africa (2008)
Violence and survival in Ethiopia: a comparative anthropology of the Suri people (2008)
A propósito de resistir: repensar la insurgencia en Africa (2008)
'Repensar la resistencia en la historia de Africa (2008)
Federaal Ethiopië: etniciteit, grenzen en de productie van conflict (2008)
Introduction. The struggle for development in Africa: the culture of politics and the rooting of culture (2008)
Ethiopia (2008)
Somalia (2008)
Derviches, moryaan y combatientes por la libertad: ciclos de rebelión y fragmentación en la sociedad somalí (1900-2000) (2008)
'Comment', on: Nigel Rapport, 2007, "An outline for cosmopolitan study: reclaiming the human through introspection". (2008)
Culture slipping away: violence, social tension and personal drama in Suri society, southern Ethiopia. (2007)
Causes and trajectories of local conflict among pastoral peoples in Northeast Africa (2007)
Warfare in Africa: overview (2007)
Ethiopia (2007)
16 entries in S. Uhlig (ed.), Encyclopaedia Aethiopia, vol. 3 (He-N) (2007)
Eureka! Constructing discovery in ethnographic fieldwork. (2007)
Transformations of Islam and communal relations in Wällo, Ethiopia (2007)
Slow awakening? The Ethiopian diaspora in the Netherlands, 1977-2007 (2006)
Prager Frühling in Addis : die Parlamentswahl in Äthiopien und die Repression der Regierung (2006)
Interpreting Ethiopian elections in their context : a reply to Tobias Hagmann (2006)
Reconstructing Haberland reconstructing the Wolaitta: writing the history and society of a former Ethiopian Kingdom (2006)
Warfare in Africa: reframing state and "culture" as factors of violent conflict (2006)
Of snakes and cattle: The dialectics of group esteem between Suri and Dizi in Southwest Ethiopia (2006)
Ethnicity and conflict generation in Ethiopia: some problems and prospects of ehno-regional federalism (2006)
Discomfiture of democracy? The 2005 election crisis in Ethiopia and its aftermath (2006)
Review of Hammond L.C., This place will become like home. Refugee repatriation to Ethiopia (2006)
Review of Ramos, M.J. & I. Boavida, I., 'The Indigenous and the Foreign in Christian Ethiopian Art. On Portuguese-Ethiopian Contacts in the Sixteenth-Seventeenth Centuries (2005)
Vanguard or vandals : youth, politics and conflict in Africa (2005)
Eritrean beauty : the wonderful people of Eritrea (2005)
Transformaties van staat en geweld in Afrika: de teloorgang van de postkoloniale orde (2005)
Being young in Africa : the politics of despair and renewal (2005)
Review of Elwert, G., Feuchtwang, S. & Neubert, D., 'Dynamics of Violence: Processes of Escalation and De-Escalation' (2004)
Review of Freeman, D., 'Initiating change in Highland Ethiopia : causes and consequences of cultural transformation' (2004)
Reconstructing Southern Sudan in the post-war era: challenges and prospects of 'Quick Impact Programmes' (2004)
Converting pastoralists: reflections on missionary work and development in southern Ethiopia (2004)
Obituary: Alexander Naty (2004)
Ritual and political forms of violent practice among the Suri of southern Ethiopia (2004)
Violence and State (re)Formation in the African context: global and local aspects of crisis and change (2004)
Remembering Londósa : mediator and counterpoint in a "violent" society (2004)
Rethinking resistance in African history: an introduction (2003)
Badme and the Ethio-Eritrean border: the challenge of demarcation in the post-war period (2003)
Local leadership and State governance in southern Ethiopia : from charisma to bureaucracy (2003)
Love and death of cattle : the paradox in Suri attitudes toward livestock (2003)
Ethiopia-Eritrea: proxy wars and prospects of peace in the Horn of Africa (2003)
Dervishes, 'moryaan' and freedom fighters: cycles of rebellion and the fragmentation of Somali society, 1900-2000 (2003)
Rethinking resistance : revolt and violence in African history (2003)
Chaises éthiopiennes (2003)
Drinking, prestige, and power : alcohol and cultural hegemony in Maji, southern Ethiopia (2002)
Plant use among the Suri people of southern Ethiopia: a system of knowledge in danger? (2002)
Paradoxes of power and culture in an old periphery: Surma, 1974-1998 (2002)
Ethnic trajectories in Israel : comparing the "Bené Israel" and "Beta Israel" communities, 1950-2000 (2002)
Review of Negash,T. and Tronvoll,K. 'Brothers at war: making sense of the Eritrean-Ethiopian War' (2001)
Identiteit, strijd en continuïteit in trans-modern Afrika : een kritisch-realistische benadering (2001)
Creating borders: exploring the impact of the Ethio-Eritrean war on the local population (2001)
African studies in the Netherlands: a brief survey (2001)
Meanings of violence : a cross cultural perspective (2000)
Review of Doornbos, M. and Tesfai, A. (eds), 'Post-conflict Eritrea: Prospects for Reconstruction and Development' (2000)
Review of Kurimoto, E. and Simonse, S. (eds), 'Conflict Age and Power in North East Africa: Age Systems in Transition' (2000)
Review of Pankhurst, R. 'The Ethiopian Borderlands: Essays in Regional History' (2000)
Review of Parfitt, T. and Trevisan Semi, E. (eds), 'The Beta Israel in Ethiopia and Israel: Studies on the Ethiopian Jews' (2000)
Can Africa claim the 21st century?' A World Bank publication, May 2000. Review and comments (2000)
Geweld en cultuur: notities over ideeën en praktijken van geweld onder de Suri van Zuid-Ethiopië in vergelijkend perspectief (2000)
Love and Death of Cattle: The Paradox in Suri Attitudes towards Livestock (2000)
Violence and the crisis of conciliation: Suri, Dizi and the State in south-west Ethiopia (2000)
Comparing cultures in Southern Ethiopia: from ethnography to generative explanation (2000)
La violence, l'État et l'ethnicité dans la Corne de l'Afrique: au niveau local et mondial (2000)
Special issue: Cultural variation and social change in southern Ethiopia : comparative approaches. (2000)
Tourism and its discontents : Suri-tourist encounters in southern Ethiopia (2000)
Election observation and democratization in Africa (2000)
Représentations de la culture matérielle des Me'en: forme et fonction des artefacts (2000)
Creating Borders: The Impact of the Ethio-Eritrean War on the Local Population (2000)
Preface: violation and violence as cultural phenomena (2000)
Restoring the balance: violence and culture among the Suri of Southern Ethiopia (2000)
Introduction: Rethinking democratization and election observation in Africa (2000)
'Loof de Heer!' Jeugd en religie in Afrika (2000)
The organization of elections in federal Ethiopia : Retrospect and prospect (2000)
International election observation: A discussion on policy and practice (1999)
Review of Taddia, I. 'Autobiografie Africane. Il Colonialismo nelle Memorie Orali' (1999)
Review of "Ethiopia - The Heritage of an Empire". Notes on an Exhibition (1999)
The total Somali clan genealogy : a preliminary sketch (1999)
Paradoxes of Power and Culture in an Old Periphery: Surma 1974-1998 (1999)
Regional Variation in the Cultural Systems of Southern Ethiopia (1999)
Ethiopian Islam and the Challenge of Diversity (1999)
The Elusive Chief: Authority and Leadership in Surma Society (Ethiopia) (1999)
The production of 'primitiveness' and identity : Surma-tourist interactions (1999)
Violence, ritual, and reproduction : culture and context in Surma dueling (1999)
Artifacts as 'daily art' in Me'en culture: the life and work of Bogine Shala and Gelta Foroshowa (1999)
Surmic bibliography (1999)
Ethiopian Studies in Japan: The 13th ICES in Kyoto (1999)
Review of Adera, T.and Ahmed, A.J. (eds), 'Silence is not Golden. A Critical Anthology of Ethiopian Literature' (1998)
Review of Nordstrom, C. and Robben, A. (eds), 'Fieldwork under Fire' (1998)
Review of Pankhurst, R. and Gérard, D., 'Ethiopia Photographed: historic pictures of the country and its people taken between 1867 and 1935' (1998)
An historical-anthropological perspective on Islam in Ethiopia (1998)
Ritual and political forms of violent practice among the Suri of southern Ethiopia (1998)
Violence and the crises of conciliation: Suri, Dizi and the state in Southwest Ethiopia (1998)
Democratisering als schaduwtheater?: Afrikaanse experimenten (1998)
New configurations of Ethiopian ethnicity : the challenge of the South (1998)
Against the boredom of the facts: the need for theory in African Studies (1998)
New configurations of Ethiopian ethnicity: the challenge of the South (1998)
Violence and political discourse among the Chai Suri (1998)
An historical-anthropological approach to Islam in Ethiopia: issues of identity and politics (1998)
Briefing: the Eritrean-Ethiopian border dispute (1998)
Cross-ethnic clan identities among Surmic groups and their neighbours: the case of the Mela (1998)
Competing practices of drinking and power: alcoholic hegemonism in southern Ethiopia (1997)
Ethnicity and constitutionalism in contemporary Ethiopia (1997)
Studying conflict and violence in Africa: some notes from an anthropological perspective (1997)
Visuele etnografie - theorie, methoden en mogelijkheden (1997)
Afrika bezuiden de Sahara (1997)
Competing practices of drinking and power : alcoholic 'hegemonism'in southern Ethiopia (1997)
Het Surma stokduel : sport en ritueel geweld (1997)
De ingebeelde EU - vorm als inhoud van de Europese Unie (1997)
The production of "primitiveness" and identity: Surma - tourist interactions (1997)
Violence, ritual, and reproduction : Surma ceremonial dueling as a construction of sociality and sexuality (1997)
Violence and culture: anthropological and evolutionary-psychological reflections on Surma society (Ethiopia) (1997)
Territory, space and state among the Suri: changes in an Ethiopian periphery, 1977-1997 (1997)
The shrinking cultural and political space of East African pastoral societies (1997)
Authority and leadership in Surma society (Ethiopia) (1997)
The myth of Tishana "kingship": ideological reflections of socio-economic change (1997)
Review of Kaplan, S., Parfitt,T. and Trevisan Semi, E.(eds), 'Between Africa and Zion' (1997)
Review of Tiruneh, A. 'The Ethiopian Revolution 1974-1987' (1997)
Review of Waal, F. de, 'Good Natured. The Origins of Right and Wrong in Humans and Other Animals' (1997)
De Nilo-Saharaanse en Omotisch sprekende bevolkingsgroepen (1996)
The challenges of education in an Ethiopian agro-pastoral society: Surma childhood in crisis (1996)
Bomen en planten bij de Ethiopische Surma: ritueel en praktisch gebruik (1996)
Eritreo-Ethiopian studies in society and history: 1960-1995 : a supplementary bibliography (1996)
Violence, state and ethnicity in the Horn of Africa (1996)
Review of Branes,V.L.; Boddy,J., 'Aman the story of a Somali girl' (1996)
Medicinal and ritual plants of the Ethiopean southwest: an account of recent research (1995)
Ritual and environment: the 'mósit' ceremony of the Ethiopian Me'en people (1995)
Breaking and making the State : the dynamics of ethnic democracy in Ethiopia (1995)
Ethnicité et 'démocratisation' : le dilemme éthiopien (1995)
Transformations of violence in twentieth-century Ethiopia : cultural roots, political conjunctures (1995)
Disaster, relief and political change in southern Ethiopia : developments from within Suri society (1995)
Ethiopie: le dilemme entre ethnicité et "démocratisation" (1995)
The impact of violence : the Ethiopian 'Red terror' as a social phenomenon (1995)
'Tribal' violence, peace-making and ethnology. A comment (1994)
Refractions of revolution in Ethiopian "Surmic" societies: an analysis of cultural response (1994)
The irrevocable past: history and image of the Beta Esra'el (1994)
De boodschap der ingewanden - divinatie in een Afrikaanse samenleving (1994)
Famine, gold and guns : the Suri of southwestern Ethiopia, 1985-91 (1993)
Me'en ritual, medicinal and other plants : a contribution to South-West Ethiopian ethno-botany (1993)
Reading the entrails: analysis of an African divination discourse (1993)
Ethnic conflict in the 'tribal zone': the Dizi and Suri in southern Ethiopia (1993)
Funeral as ritual: an analysis of Me'en mortuary rites (southwest Ethiopia) (1992)
The Me'en of South-Western Käfa : catalogue of Me'en artefacts in the Ethnological Museum of the Institute of Ethiopian Studies, Addis Ababa University (1992)
The deconstruction of 'tribe' : ethnicity and politics in southwestern Ethiopia (1991)
Mytho-légendes et histoire : l'énigme de l'ethnogenèse des Beta Esra'el (1991)
Missionaries, anthropologists and rationality (1990)
Tribal formation on the Ethiopian fringe : toward a history of the 'Tishana' (1990)
Ethiopian society and history : a bibliography of Ethiopian studies 1957-1990 (1990)
The enigma of Beta Esra'el ethnogenesis : an anthro-historical study (1990)
Anthropology and the missions: a critical epistemological perspective (1985)
A preliminary ethnographic bibliography of Ethiopia, 1959-1982 (1985)
'Militair socialisme' : de politieke verhoudingen in Ethiopië (1985)
The Falashas in Ethiopia and Israel : the problem of ethnic assimilation (1984)
'Tendency to demonise Ethiopia and give free pass to TPLF is false narrative’ (0)
Routledge handbook of the Horn of Africa
London, New York: Routledge, 2022
Editors: J.-N. Bach; G.J. Abbink; S. Ancel; A.A.A. Aziz; E. Fantini; P. Ferras; H. Mwakimako; C. Nallet; A. Ylönen; J. Záhořík
Ethiopian-Eritrean studies: a bibliography on society and history, 2010-2015
Leiden: African Studies Centre, Leiden University, ASC occasional publications 24, 2016
G.J. Abbink
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Lands of the future: transforming pastoral lands and livelihoods in Eastern Africa
Max Planck Institute, Working papers / Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology 154, 2014
G.J. Abbink; K. Askew; D.F. Dori; E. Fratkin; E.C. Gabbert; J. Galaty; S. LaTosky; J. Lydall; H.A. Mahmoud; J. Markakis; G Schlee; I. Strecker; D. Turton
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Suri orature : introduction to the society, language and oral culture of the Suri people (Southwest Ethiopia)
Köln: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, Verbal art and documentary literature in African languages ; 33 33, 2013
G.J. Abbink; M. Bryant; D. Bambu
Revolte en revolutie in de 'Arabische Lente' : duurzame politieke klimaatverandering?
Amsterdam: Faculteit Sociale Wetenschappen, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, 2012
G.J. Abbink; P. Kerkhof
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A Bibliography of Ethiopian-Eritrean Studies in Society and History, 1995-2010
Addis Ababa [etc.]: Organisation for Social Science Research in Eastern and Southern Africa (OSSREA) [etc.], 2010
G.J. Abbink
Dilemmas of development : conflicts of interest and their resolutions in modernizing Africa
Leiden: African Studies Centre, African studies collection 12, 2008
G.J. Abbink; A. van Dokkum
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Verdeeld Afrika : etniciteit, conflict en de grenzen van de staat.
Diemen: AMB Publishers, 2008
G.J. Abbink; A. van Dokkum
Eritrean beauty : the wonderful people of Eritrea
Veenendaal: PrimaMedia, 2005
A. Alders; G.J. Abbink
Identiteit, strijd en continuïteit in trans-modern Afrika : een kritisch-realistische benadering
Amsterdam: VU Boekhandel/Uitgeverij, 2001
G.J. Abbink
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Can Africa claim the 21st century?' A World Bank publication, May 2000. Review and comments
Leiden: African Studies Centre, 2000
H.A. Meilink; D.F. Bryceson; G.J. Abbink
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Eritreo-Ethiopian studies in society and history: 1960-1995 : a supplementary bibliography
Leiden: African Studies Centre, Research report ; 55 1996
G.J. Abbink
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The Me'en of South-Western Käfa : catalogue of Me'en artefacts in the Ethnological Museum of the Institute of Ethiopian Studies, Addis Ababa University
Addis Ababa: Institute of Ethiopian Studies, 1992
G.J. Abbink
Mytho-légendes et histoire : l'énigme de l'ethnogenèse des Beta Esra'el
Bruxelles: Centre d'Étude et de Documentation Africaines, Les cahiers du CEDAF, ISSN 0250-1619 ; 3/1991 1991
G.J. Abbink
Ethiopian society and history : a bibliography of Ethiopian studies 1957-1990
Leiden: African Studies Centre, Research report ; 45 1990
G.J. Abbink
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A preliminary ethnographic bibliography of Ethiopia, 1959-1982
Nijmegen: Katholieke Universiteit, Instituut voor Culturele en Sociale Antropologie, Sociaal antropologische cahiers ; 17 1985
G.J. Abbink
The Falashas in Ethiopia and Israel : the problem of ethnic assimilation
Nijmegen: ICSA, Sociaal antropologische cahiers ; 15 1984
G.J. Abbink
'The looming spectre: a history of the ‘state of emergency’ in Ethiopia, 1970s–2021'
In: J.-N. Bach; G.J. Abbink; S. Ancel; A.A.A. Aziz; E. Fantini; P. Ferras; H. Mwakimako; C. Nallet; A. Ylönen; J. Záhořík: 'Routledge handbook of the Horn of Africa', London, New York: Routledge, 2022.
'Introduction: authoritarianism, innovative regimes, and forms of resistance'
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Vanguard or vandals : youth, politics and conflict in Africa
G.J. Abbink; W.M.J.van Kessel (editors)
Leiden ; Boston: Brill, African dynamics 4, 2005.
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Rethinking resistance : revolt and violence in African history
G.J. Abbink; M.E. de Bruijn; K. van Walraven (editors)
Leiden [etc.]: Brill, African dynamics 2, 2003.
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Meanings of violence : a cross cultural perspective
G. Aijmer; G.J. Abbink (editors)
Oxford [etc.]: Berg, 2000.
Election observation and democratization in Africa
G.J. Abbink; G.S.C.M. Hesseling (editors)
Basingstoke: Macmillan, 2000.
Special issue: Cultural variation and social change in southern Ethiopia : comparative approaches.
G.J. Abbink (editors)
East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press, Northeast African studies, ISSN 0740-9133 ; new series, vol. 7, no. 3 2000.
'The Ethiopia conflict in international relations and global media discourse'
in: E-international relations, no. 5, pp. [6 pages], 2021.
'Kijk eens naar Ethiopië zonder neokoloniale bril'
in: Algemeen Dagblad, pp. 23, 2021.
'Oorlog in Tigray'
in: Historisch Nieuwsblad, no. 9, pp. 10-11, 2021.
'Review of F. Girke, "The wheel of autonomy: rhetoric and ethnicity in the Omo Valley" (Oxford, New York : Berghahn books, 2018)'
in: Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, vol. 27, no. 2, pp. 440-441, 2021.
'Cyberkrieg um Tigray'
in: Jungle World, no. 46, pp. 13 (print version), 2021.
'How do agro-pastoralists cope with climate change? : the case of the Nyangatom in the Lower Omo Valley of Ethiopia'
in: Journal of arid environments, vol. 189, 2021.
'Zeven factoren bepalen de politieke vooruitzichten in Afrika'
in: Clingendael spectator, pp. [1-20], 2020.
'Subjects of history: administrative categories, ethnic labels, and the limits of cultural citizenship in Ethiopia'
in: Northeast African Studies, vol. 20, no. 1-2, pp. 137-158, 2020.
'On “good governance”: towards reconciling state and vernacular views in Southwest Ethiopia.'
in: Africa: revista semestrale di studi e ricerche, vol. 2, pp. 97-115, 2020.
'Review of: Kings of disaster: dualism, centralism and the scapegoat king in Southeastern Sudan (2nd ed., Kampala: Fountain Publishers - East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2017).'
in: Cahiers d'Études Africaines, vol. LX(1), no. 237, pp. 211-213, 2020.
'Religion and violence in the Horn of Africa: trajectories of mimetic rivalry and escalation between ‘political Islam’ and the state.'
in: Politics, religion & ideology, vol. 21, no. 2, 2020.
'In memoriam Ulrich Braukämper'
in: Aethiopica: International Journal of Ethiopian Studies, vol. 22, pp. 246-252, 2019.
'Etiyopya'da Islam ve sosyokültürel çesitlilik = Ethiopian Islam and socio-cultural diversity'
in: Yeni Türkiye, no. 97, pp. 459 - 462, 2017.
'Obituary: Richard Keir Pethick Pankhurst (1927-2017)'
in: Rassegna di Studi Etiopici, pp. 226 - 229, 2017.
'Insecure food: diet, eating and identity among the Ethiopian Suri people in the age of development'
in: African study monographs, vol. 38, no. 3, pp. 119 - 146, 2017.
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'Paradoxes of electoral authoritarianism : the 2015 Ethiopian elections as hegemonic performance'
in: Journal of contemporary African studies, vol. 35, no. 3, pp. 1 - 21, 2017.
'Contestation as claim to integration: the May 2015 public protest movement of Ethiopian Israelis'
in: Standplaats Wereld, 2015.
'Menstrual synchrony claims among Suri girls (Southwest Ethiopia) ; between culture and biology'
in: Cahiers d'études africaines, no. 218, pp. 279 - 302, 2015.
'Ethiopia's stalemate "election" hinders generational change'
in: IPI Global Observatory, 2015.
'Extensions of the self : artistry and identity in the headrests and stools of Southwest Ethiopian peoples'
in: African arts, vol. 48, no. 4, pp. 46 - 59, 2015.
'The Ethiopian revolution after 40 years (1974-2014) : plan B in progress?'
in: Journal of developing societies, vol. 31, no. 3, pp. 333 - 357, 2015.
'Stabiele instabiliteit : Somalië, Al Shabaab en de wijdere regio'
in: Internationale spectator : tijdschrift voor internationale politiek, vol. 68, no. 11, pp. 4 - 8, 2014.
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'Religious freedom and the political order: the Ethiopian 'secular state' and the containment of Muslim identity politics'
in: Journal of Eastern African Studies, vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 346 - 365, 2014.
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'Religion and politics in Africa : the future of "the secular"'
in: Africa Spectrum, vol. 49, no. 3, pp. 83 - 106, 2014.
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'The anthropology of Ethiopia 1999-2011 : highlights and trends'
in: Journal of Ethiopian studies, vol. 43, pp. 103 - 148, 2013.
'Dam controversies: contested governance and developmental discourse on the Ethiopian Omo River dam'
in: Social Anthropology, vol. 20, no. 2, pp. 125 - 144, 2012.
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'De Hoorn van Afrika als regionale (on)veiligheidszone: conflicten en dilemma's'
in: Internationale spectator : tijdschrift voor internationale politiek, vol. 66, no. 5, pp. 235 - 240, 2012.
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'Ethnic-based federalism and ethnicity in Ethiopia : reassessing the experiment after 20 years'
in: Journal of Eastern African Studies, vol. 5, no. 4, pp. 596 - 618, 2011.
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'De politiek-maatschappelijke context van een terugkerend probleem'
in: Geografie, pp. 11 - 12, 2011.
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''Land to the foreigners': economic, legal, and socio-cultural aspects of new land acquisition schemes in Ethiopia'
in: Journal of contemporary African studies, vol. 29, no. 4, pp. 513 - 539, 2011.
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'Religion in public spaces: emerging Muslim-Christian polemics in Ethiopia'
in: African affairs, vol. 110, no. 439, pp. 253 - 274, 2011.
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'De toeristische 'ontmoeting''
in: De Volkskrant, no. 4 November, 2010.
'Suri images: the return of exoticism and the commodification of an Ethiopian "tribe"'
in: Cahiers d'études africaines, vol. 49, no. 196, pp. 893 - 924, 2009.
'Somalische piraten - het zijn geen Robin Hoods'
in: Trouw, 2009.
'The Ethiopian second republic and the fragile 'social contract'.'
in: Afrika Spectrum, vol. 44, no. 2, pp. 3 - 28, 2009.
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'Conflict and social change on the south-west Ethiopian frontier: an analysis of Suri society.'
in: Journal of Eastern African Studies, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 22 - 41, 2009.
'Revolution as warfare in the Horn of Africa (review article)'
in: Africa Review of Books, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 5 - 6, 2009.
'"Cannibalism" in Southern Ethiopia: an exploratory study of Me'en discourse.'
in: Anthropos, vol. 103, no. 1, pp. 3 - 13, 2008.
'Muslim monasteries? Some aspects of religious culture in Northern Ethiopia'
in: Aethiopica : international journal of Ethiopian studies, vol. 11, pp. 117 - 133, 2008.
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'Darfur: de weerslag van genocidaal geweld'
in: In de Marge.Tijdschrift voor Levensbeschouwing en Wetenschap, vol. 17, no. 1, pp. 64 - 74, 2008.
''Comment', on: Nigel Rapport, 2007, "An outline for cosmopolitan study: reclaiming the human through introspection".'
in: Current Anthropology, vol. 48, no. 2, pp. 269 - 270, 2008.
'Causes and trajectories of local conflict among pastoral peoples in Northeast Africa'
in: Ethiopian Journal of the Social Sciences and Humanities, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 25 - 42, 2007.
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'Ethnicity and conflict generation in Ethiopia: some problems and prospects of ehno-regional federalism'
in: Journal of Contemporary African, vol. 24, no. 3, pp. 389 - 414, 2006.
'Reconstructing Haberland reconstructing the Wolaitta: writing the history and society of a former Ethiopian Kingdom'
in: History in Africa : a journal of methodHistory in Africa, vol. 33, pp. 1 - 15, 2006.
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'Interpreting Ethiopian elections in their context : a reply to Tobias Hagmann'
in: African affairs, vol. 105, no. 421, pp. 613 - 620, 2006.
'Prager Frühling in Addis : die Parlamentswahl in Äthiopien und die Repression der Regierung'
in: Der Überblick, vol. 42, no. 3, pp. 46 - 49, 2006.
'Discomfiture of democracy? The 2005 election crisis in Ethiopia and its aftermath'
in: African affairs, vol. 105, no. 419, pp. 173 - 199, 2006.
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'Slow awakening? The Ethiopian diaspora in the Netherlands, 1977-2007'
in: Diaspora: a journal of transnational studies, vol. 15, no. 2/3, pp. 361 - 380, 2006.
'An obituary of Aberra Jembere 1928-2004'
in: Aethiopica : international journal of Ethiopian studiesAethiopica, vol. 7, pp. 189 - 193, 2004.
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'Obituary: Alexander Naty'
in: Anthropology Newsletter, pp. 24 - 24, 2004.
'Badme and the Ethio-Eritrean border: the challenge of demarcation in the post-war period'
in: Africa : journal of the International African InstituteAfrica, vol. 58, no. 2, pp. 219 - 231, 2003.
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'Ethiopia-Eritrea: proxy wars and prospects of peace in the Horn of Africa'
in: Journal of contemporary African studies, vol. 21, no. 3, pp. 407 - 425, 2003.
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'Love and death of cattle : the paradox in Suri attitudes toward livestock'
in: Ethnos, vol. 68, no. 3, pp. 341 - 364, 2003.
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'Plant use among the Suri people of southern Ethiopia: a system of knowledge in danger?'
in: Afrikanistische Arbeitspapiere : Schriftenreihe des Kölner Instituts für Afrikanistik, no. 70, pp. 199 - 206, 2002.
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'Ethnic trajectories in Israel : comparing the "Bené Israel" and "Beta Israel" communities, 1950-2000'
in: Anthropos, vol. 97, pp. 3 - 19, 2002.
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'De Hoorn van Afrika: op weg naar vrede?'
in: Internationale spectator : tijdschrift voor internationale politiekInternationale spectator, vol. 55, no. 4, pp. 199 - 205, 2001.
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'African studies in the Netherlands: a brief survey'
in: African research and documentation : the journal of the African Studies Association of the UK and the Standing Commission [Conference] on Library Materials on AfricaAfrican research and documentation, no. 87, pp. 3 - 10, 2001.
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'Creating borders: exploring the impact of the Ethio-Eritrean war on the local population'
in: Africa : journal of the International African InstituteAfrica, vol. 56, no. 4, pp. 447 - 458, 2001.
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'La violence, l'État et l'ethnicité dans la Corne de l'Afrique: au niveau local et mondial'
in: Autrepart, no. 15, pp. 149 - 166, 2000.
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'Représentations de la culture matérielle des Me'en: forme et fonction des artefacts'
in: Annales d'Éthiopie, vol. 16, pp. 93 - 106, 2000.
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'A Salute to Ato Tamrat Bekele'
in: Addis Tribune, 2000.
'On the Ethio-Eritrean Conflict'
in: Boston Globe and Mail, 2000.
'The Legacy of Macau'
in: International Institute of Asian Studies Newsletter, vol. 21, pp. 31 - 31, 2000.
'Comparing cultures in Southern Ethiopia: from ethnography to generative explanation'
in: Northeast African Studies, vol. 7, no. 3, pp. 1 - 14, 2000.
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'Tourism and its discontents : Suri-tourist encounters in southern Ethiopia'
in: Social Anthropology, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 1 - 17, 2000.
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'Violence and the crisis of conciliation: Suri, Dizi and the State in south-west Ethiopia'
in: Africa : journal of the International African InstituteAfrica, vol. 70, no. 4, pp. 527 - 550, 2000.
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'Ethiopian Studies in Japan: The 13th ICES in Kyoto'
in: Rassegna di Studi Etiopici, vol. 41, pp. 141 - 145, 1999.
'Ethiopian Islam and the Challenge of Diversity'
in: ISIM Newsletter, vol. 4, pp. 24 - 24, 1999.
'Violence, ritual, and reproduction : culture and context in Surma dueling'
in: Ethnology, vol. 38, no. 3, pp. 227 - 242, 1999.
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'New configurations of Ethiopian ethnicity : the challenge of the South'
in: Northeast African Studies, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 59 - 81, 1998.
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'Ritual and political forms of violent practice among the Suri of southern Ethiopia'
in: Cahiers d'Etudes africaines, vol. 38, no. 150/152, pp. 271 - 295, 1998.
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'Briefing: the Eritrean-Ethiopian border dispute'
in: African affairs, vol. 97, no. 389, pp. 551 - 565, 1998.
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'An historical-anthropological approach to Islam in Ethiopia: issues of identity and politics'
in: Journal of African cultural studies, vol. 11, no. 2, pp. 109 - 124, 1998.
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'The Eritrean-Ethiopian border dispute'
in: African affairs, vol. 97, no. 389, pp. 551 - 565, 1998.
'Afrika in Nederland'
in: NVAS Nieuwsbrief, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 4 - 5, 1998.
'Democratisering als schaduwtheater?: Afrikaanse experimenten'
in: Facta, vol. 6, no. 3, pp. 13 - 17, 1998.
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'Competing practices of drinking and power : alcoholic 'hegemonism'in southern Ethiopia'
in: Northeast African Studies, vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 7 - 22, 1997.
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'Het Surma stokduel : sport en ritueel geweld'
in: De Baboab, vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 15 - 20, 1997.
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'The shrinking cultural and political space of East African pastoral societies'
in: Nordic journal of African studies, vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 1 - 17, 1997.
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'The myth of Tishana "kingship": ideological reflections of socio-economic change'
in: Anthropos, vol. 92, no. 4/6, pp. 551 - 556, 1997.
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'Staatsomvorming in Afrika'
in: Internationale spectator : tijdschrift voor internationale politiekInternationale spectator, vol. 51, no. 4, pp. 204 - 208, 1997.
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'Ethnicity and constitutionalism in contemporary Ethiopia'
in: Journal of African law, vol. 41, no. 2, pp. 159 - 174, 1997.
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'De ingebeelde EU - vorm als inhoud van de Europese Unie'
in: Facta, vol. 5, no. 4, pp. 11 - 13, 1997.
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'Visuele etnografie - theorie, methoden en mogelijkheden'
in: Facta, vol. 5, no. 4, pp. 16 - 19, 1997.
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'Authority and leadership in Surma society (Ethiopia)'
in: Africa : journal of the International African InstituteAfrica, vol. 52, no. 3, pp. 317 - 342, 1997.
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'Bomen en planten bij de Ethiopische Surma: ritueel en praktisch gebruik'
in: De Baboab, vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 27 - 31, 1996.
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'Schrijven als proces'
in: Facta, vol. 4, no. 7, pp. 1 - 1, 1996.
'Ethiopie: le dilemme entre ethnicité et "démocratisation"'
in: Politique africaine, vol. 57, pp. 137 - 142, 1995.
'Medicinal and ritual plants of the Ethiopean southwest: an account of recent research'
in: Indigenous Knowledge and Development Monitor, vol. 3, no. 2, pp. 6 - 8, 1995.
'Ethnicité et 'démocratisation' : le dilemme éthiopien'
in: Politique africaine, no. 57, pp. 135 - 141, 1995.
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'Ritual and environment: the 'mósit' ceremony of the Ethiopian Me'en people'
in: Journal of religion in Africa, vol. 25, no. 2, pp. 163 - 190, 1995.
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'Breaking and making the State : the dynamics of ethnic democracy in Ethiopia'
in: Journal of contemporary African studies, vol. 13, no. 2, pp. 149 - 163, 1995.
'Etniciteit en democratisering in Ethiopië'
in: Internationale spectator : tijdschrift voor internationale politiekInternationale spectator, vol. 49, no. 11, pp. 591 - 597, 1995.
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'Transformations of violence in twentieth-century Ethiopia : cultural roots, political conjunctures'
in: Focaal : tijdschrift voor antropologieFocaal, no. 25, pp. 57 - 77, 1995.
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'The irrevocable past: history and image of the Beta Esra'el'
in: Cahiers d'Etudes africaines, vol. 34, no. 4, pp. 693 - 700, 1994.
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'Ethnic conflict in the 'tribal zone': the Dizi and Suri in southern Ethiopia'
in: The journal of modern African studies : a quarterly survey of politics, economics and related topics in contemporary Africa, vol. 31, no. 4, pp. 675 - 682, 1993.
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'Suri-English basic vocabulary'
in: Frankfurter afrikanistische Blätter, no. 5, pp. 39 - 64, 1993.
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'Reading the entrails: analysis of an African divination discourse'
in: Man, vol. 28, no. 4, pp. 705 - 726, 1993.
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'Me'en ritual, medicinal and other plants : a contribution to South-West Ethiopian ethno-botany'
in: Journal of Ethiopian studies, vol. 26, no. 2, 1993.
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'Famine, gold and guns : the Suri of southwestern Ethiopia, 1985-91'
in: Disasters, vol. 17, no. 3, pp. 218 - 225, 1993.
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'Funeral as ritual: an analysis of Me'en mortuary rites (southwest Ethiopia)'
in: Africa : journal of the International African InstituteAfrica, vol. 47, no. 2, pp. 221 - 236, 1992.
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'The deconstruction of 'tribe' : ethnicity and politics in southwestern Ethiopia'
in: Journal of Ethiopian studies, vol. 24, pp. 1 - 21, 1991.
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'The enigma of Beta Esra'el ethnogenesis : an anthro-historical study'
in: Cahiers d'Etudes africaines, vol. 30, no. 120, pp. 397 - 449, 1990.
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'Tribal formation on the Ethiopian fringe : toward a history of the 'Tishana''
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''Militair socialisme' : de politieke verhoudingen in Ethiopië'
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'Anthropology and the missions: a critical epistemological perspective'
in: Methodology and Science, vol. 18, no. 4, pp. 253 - 269, 1985.
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'Review of James de Lorenzi, 'Guardians of the tradition: historians and historical writing in Ethiopia and Eritrea" (Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2015)'
History of Humanities, vol. 3, no. 2, pp. 453 - 456, 2018.
'Review of Susanne Epple: "The Bashada of Southern Ethiopia: a study of age, gender and social discourse" (Cologne: University of Rochester Press, 2010)'
Africa : journal of the International African Institute, vol. 88, no. 1, pp. 196 - 198, 2018.
'Review of Patrick Desplat and Terje Østebø, 'Muslim Ethiopia : the Christian legacy, identity politics and Islamic reformism" London : Palgrave-Macmillan, 2013)'
Islamic Africa, vol. 8, pp. 242 - 246, 2017.
'Review of Zeleke Eresso, 'Faith at the crossroads : religious syncretism and dispute settlement in Northern Ethiopia. A study of Sufe shrine in North Eastern Ethiopia" Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz, 2015)'
Islamic Africa, vol. 8, pp. 242 - 246, 2017.
'Review of Gérard Prunier and Éloi Ficquet (eds.), 'Contemporary Ethiopia : monarchy, revolution and the legacy of Meles Zenawi" (London : C. Hurst, 2015)'
Journal of modern African studies, vol. 55, no. 1, pp. 171 - 173, 2017.
'Review of: Gaim Kibreab: "Eritrea: a dream deferred"'
The journal of African history, vol. 51, no. 3, pp. 426 - 427, 2011.
'Review of: W. James: "War and survival in Sudan's frontier lands: voices from the Blue Nile"'
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, vol. 17, pp. 214 - 215, 2011.
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The journal of African history, vol. 51, pp. 426-427, 2011.
'Review of G. Verswijver & H. Silvester 'Omo People and Design' (Paris - Tervuren: Éditions de La Martinière - Royal Museum for Central Africa, 2008)'
Anthropos, vol. 105, pp. 310 - 311, 2010.
'Review of H. Amborn, 'Flexibel aus Tradition: Burji in Äthiopien und Kenia. Unter Verwending der Aufzeichnungen von Helmut Straube. With Explanation of Some Cultural Items in English' (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2009)'
Aethiopica : international journal of Ethiopian studies, vol. 13, pp. 164 - 166, 2010.
'Review of A. Honwana & F. de Boeck, 'Makers and breakers. Children and youth in Postcolonial Africa''
Africa : journal of the International African Institute, vol. 79, no. 3, pp. 466 - 467, 2009.
'Review of Hammond L.C., This place will become like home. Refugee repatriation to Ethiopia'
Journal of contemporary African studies, vol. 24, no. 1, pp. 139 - 141, 2006.
'Review of Ramos, M.J. & I. Boavida, I., 'The Indigenous and the Foreign in Christian Ethiopian Art. On Portuguese-Ethiopian Contacts in the Sixteenth-Seventeenth Centuries'
African Arts, vol. 38, no. 4, pp. 8 - 9 and 91, 2005.
'Review of Elwert, G., Feuchtwang, S. & Neubert, D., 'Dynamics of Violence: Processes of Escalation and De-Escalation''
Ethnos, vol. 69, no. 4, pp. 563 - 565, 2004.
'Review of Freeman, D., 'Initiating change in Highland Ethiopia : causes and consequences of cultural transformation''
Africa : journal of the International African Institute, vol. 74, no. 4, pp. 700 - 701, 2004.
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'Review of Negash,T. and Tronvoll,K. 'Brothers at war: making sense of the Eritrean-Ethiopian War''
African affairs, vol. 100, no. 401, pp. 656 - 658, 2001.
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'Review of Doornbos, M. and Tesfai, A. (eds), 'Post-conflict Eritrea: Prospects for Reconstruction and Development''
Journal of modern African studies, vol. 38, no. 3, pp. 524 - 526, 2000.
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'Review of Kurimoto, E. and Simonse, S. (eds), 'Conflict Age and Power in North East Africa: Age Systems in Transition''
Africa : journal of the International African InstituteAfrica, vol. 70, no. 2, pp. 322 - 325, 2000.
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'Review of Pankhurst, R. 'The Ethiopian Borderlands: Essays in Regional History''
Northeast African Studies, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 135 - 138, 2000.
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'Review of Parfitt, T. and Trevisan Semi, E. (eds), 'The Beta Israel in Ethiopia and Israel: Studies on the Ethiopian Jews''
Journal of religion in Africa, vol. 30, no. 1, pp. 137 - 140, 2000.
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'Review of 'Aethiopia - Peoples of Ethiopia''
Museum Anthropology, vol. 22, no. 2, pp. 62 - 66, 1999.
'Review of "Ethiopia - The Heritage of an Empire". Notes on an Exhibition'
Aethiopica : international journal of Ethiopian studies, vol. 2, pp. 291 - 296, 1999.
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'Review of Taddia, I. 'Autobiografie Africane. Il Colonialismo nelle Memorie Orali''
Aethiopica : international journal of Ethiopian studies, vol. 2, pp. 276 - 279, 1999.
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'Review of Adera, T.and Ahmed, A.J. (eds), 'Silence is not Golden. A Critical Anthology of Ethiopian Literature''
Aethiopica : international journal of Ethiopian studies, vol. 1, pp. 240 - 243, 1998.
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'Review of Nordstrom, C. and Robben, A. (eds), 'Fieldwork under Fire''
Social Anthropology, vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 145 - 146, 1998.
'Review of Pankhurst, R. and Gérard, D., 'Ethiopia Photographed: historic pictures of the country and its people taken between 1867 and 1935''
Africa : journal of the International African Institute, vol. 68, no. 1, pp. 141 - 142, 1998.
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'Review of Kaplan, S., Parfitt,T. and Trevisan Semi, E.(eds), 'Between Africa and Zion''
Journal of religion in Africa, vol. 27, no. 2, pp. 217 - 218, 1997.
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'Review of Tareke, G., 'Ethiopia: Power and Protest''
Journal of modern African studies, vol. 35, no. 3, pp. 538 - 542, 1997.
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'Review of Tiruneh, A. 'The Ethiopian Revolution 1974-1987''
Northeast African Studies, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 117 - 121, 1997.
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'Review of Waal, F. de, 'Good Natured. The Origins of Right and Wrong in Humans and Other Animals''
Facta, vol. 7, no. 7, pp. 18 - 19, 1997.
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'Review of Branes,V.L.; Boddy,J., 'Aman the story of a Somali girl''
Northeast African Studies, vol. 3, no. 2, pp. 159 - 163, 1996.
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'Review of Timmerman, E. de : 'Rwanda één jaar later''
Internationale spectator : tijdschrift voor internationale politiek, vol. 49, no. 5, pp. 291 - 293, 1995.
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