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An Archaeology of Resistance
An Archaeology of Resistance: Materiality and Time in an African Borderland studies the tactics of resistance deployed by a variety of indigenous communities in the borderland between Sudan and Ethiopia. The Horn of Africa is an early area of state formation and at the same time the home of many egalitarian, small scale societies, which have lived in the buffer zone between states for the last three thousand years. For this reason, resistance is not something added to their sociopolitical structures: it is an inherent part of those structures—a mode of being. The main objective of the work is to understand the diverse forms of resistance that characterizes the borderland groups, with an emphasis on two essentially archaeological themes, materiality and time, by combining archaeological, political and social theory, ethnographic methods and historical data to examine different processes of resistance in the long term.
Federalism and Ethnic Conflict in Ethiopia
This book examines the impact of the federal restructuring of Ethiopia on ethnic conflicts. The adoption of ethnic federalism in Ethiopia was closely related with the problem of creating a state structure that could be used as instrument of managing the complex ethno-linguistic diversity of the country. Ethiopia is a multinational country with about 85 ethno-linguistic groups and since the 1960s, it suffered from ethno-regional conflicts. The book considers multiple governance and state factors that could explain the difficulties Ethiopian federalism faces to realise its objectives. These include lack of political pluralism and the use of ethnicity as the sole instrument of state organisation. Federalism and Ethnic Conflict in Ethiopia will be of interest to students and scholars of federal studies, ethnic conflict and regionalism.
Porous Becomings
The contributors to Porous Becomings draw on the work of French philosopher of science Michel Serres (1930–2019) to show how it opens new pathways for anthropological knowledge.
Die Kunst der Ambiguität
Aus einer ubergreifenden kulturwissenschaftlichen Perspektive wird in dieser Studie eine Bestandsaufnahme und Analyse unterschiedlicher Aspekte und Erscheinungsformen von Ambiguitat im amharischsprachigen Athiopien des spaten 19. Jahrhunderts unternommen. Ein Schwerpunkt liegt dabei auf verbaler Interaktion und der dialogischen, streitbaren und mehrdeutigen Rede als einem zentralen Motiv mundlicher Uberlieferung, fur die die in Athiopien bekannten Gabra-Hanna-Anekdoten exemplarisch sind. 70 amharische Texte um den geistlichen Gelehrten und scharfzungigen Spotter wurden in den Band aufgenommen, ubersetzt, kommentiert und bezuglich ihrer Motive von Ambiguitat und deren verbaler Umsetzung analysiert. Die Erkenntnisse aus dieser Untersuchung belegen, dass Ambiguitat in der hierarchischen Gesellschaft eine besondere Relevanz besass und indirekte Kommunikation wichtige soziale Funktionen erfullte. Wo uber Bedeutungen verhandelt werden kann und muss, sind auch Elemente von Flexibilitat zu erkennen, die ein neues Licht auf die Bewertung von Ambiguitat im historischen Athiopien werfen.
