Author: Gunther Schlee

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Alexander Horstmann ist Fellow am Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity in Göttingen. Günther Schlee ist Direktor am Max-Planck-Institut für ethnologische Forschung in Halle/Saale.




17 Ebooks by Gunther Schlee

Günther Schlee: How Enemies Are Made
In popular perception cultural differences or ethnic affiliation are factors that cause conflict or political fragmentation although this is not borne out by historical evidence. This book puts forwa …
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Andrea Behrends & Stephen Reyna: Crude Domination
Crude Domination is an innovative and important book about a critical topic – oil. While there have been numerous works about petroleum from ‘experience-far’ perspectives, there have been relatively …
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€33.99
Anatoly M. Khazanov & Günther Schlee: Who Owns the Stock?
The issue of collective and multiple property rights in animals, such as cattle, camels or reindeers, among pastoralists has never been a subject of special cross-cultural and comparative study. Focu …
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Günther Schlee & Abdullahi A. Shongolo: Pastoralism and Politics in Northern Kenya and Southern Ethiopia
Examines how the lives of pastoralists in northern Kenya and southern Ethiopia are deeply affected by the creation of mutually exclusive ethnic territories and proposes ways to reverse this trend. …
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€28.99
Günther Schlee & Abdullahi A. Shongolo: Islam and Ethnicity in Northern Kenya and Southern Ethiopia
A study of the longue durée of a marginalized part of northern Kenya, examining the process of territorialization and the role of Islam in politicizing ethnicity. The recent ethnic violence in Ke …
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Bertram Turner & Günther Schlee: On Retaliation
Retaliation is associated with all forms of social and political organization, and retaliatory logics inform many different conflict resolution procedures from consensual settlement to compensation t …
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Günther Schlee & Alexander Horstmann: Difference and Sameness as Modes of Integration
What does it mean to “fit in?” In this volume of essays, editors Günther Schlee and Alexander Horstmann demystify the discourse on identity, challenging common assumptions about the role of sameness …
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Günther Schlee & Elizabeth E. Watson: Changing Identifications and Alliances in North-east Africa
Forms of group identity play a prominent role in everyday lives and politics in northeast Africa. Case studies from Sudan, Ethiopia, Uganda, and Kenya illustrate the way that identities are formed an …
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Günther Schlee & Elizabeth E. Watson: Changing Identifications and Alliances in North-east Africa
Forms of group identity play a prominent role in everyday lives and politics in north-east Africa. These volumes provide an interdisciplinary account of the nature and significance of ethnic, religio …
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€33.99
Alexander Horstmann & Günther Schlee: Integration durch Verschiedenheit
Die Aufsatzsammlung gibt einen Einblick in die theoretische Konzeption eines der zentralen Probleme der Soziologie und der Sozialanthropologie – Grenzen und Grenzziehungen – und überführt es in eine …
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€21.99
Gunther Schlee: Identities on the Move
Originally published in 1989, this book examines how the inter-ethnic relationships of the clans of the pastoral Rendille, Gabbra, Sakuye and some Somalis of northern Kenya and southern Ethiopia came …
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€42.21
Karl Härter & Carolin F. Hillemanns: On Mediation
Exploring mediation and related practices of conflict regulation, this book takes an interdisciplinary approach that includes historical, legal, anthropological and international perspectives. Divide …
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Christoph Antweiler & Bettina Beer: Ethnologie
Das Erforschen kultureller Vielfalt ist zentraler Gegenstand der Ethnologie. 25 Autor_innen aus Instituten in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz bieten Einblick in das Fach, seine Inhalte und …
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€26.95
Dereje Feyissa & Markus Virgil Hoehne: Borders and Borderlands as Resources in the Horn of Africa
Borders offer opportunities as well as restrictions, and in the Horn of Africa they are used as economic, political, identity and status resources by borderland peoples. State borders are more th …
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€28.99
Aleksandar Bošković & Günther Schlee: African Political Systems Revisited
Reexamining a classical work of social anthropology, African Political Systems (1940), edited by Fortes and Evans-Pritchard, this book looks at the colonial and academic context from which the work a …
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€33.99
Gunther Schlee: Identities on the Move
Originally published in 1989, this book examines how the inter-ethnic relationships of the clans of the pastoral Rendille, Gabbra, Sakuye and some Somalis of northern Kenya and southern Ethiopia came …
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€42.20
Echi Christina Gabbert & Fana Gebresenbet: Lands of the Future
Rangeland, forests and riverine landscapes of pastoral communities in Eastern Africa are increasingly under threat. Abetted by states who think that outsiders can better use the lands than the people …
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€38.99