Chapter 9 ‘KOŠTA AKWA’ What an Italian Pidgin Poem from Tigray Says about Self-Image, Resistance and Conflict

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. ILLUSTRATIONS viii
4. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ix
5. INTRODUCTION Approaching the Dynamics of Identification and Conflict through the Anthropology of Günther Schlee 1
6. Part I PASTORALISTS AND OTHERS Identity, Territoriality, History and Politics
7. Chapter 1 WHAT DO (PASTORALIST) WOMEN WANT? Warfare, Cowardice and Sexuality in Northern Kenya 27
8. Chapter 2 NEGOTIATING COMPLEXITY IN EAST AFRICA Landscape, Territoriality and Identity among Maa Speakers, North to South 49
9. Chapter 3 WHERE DO THEY BELONG AND WHAT BELONGS TO THEM? Acceptance of ‘Sedentarizing’ Fulɓe and Rejection of Arab Returnees in Blue Nile State and Sennar State, Sudan 63
10. Chapter 4 ETHNICITY, IDENTITY AND CITIZENSHIP OF RECENT MIGRANT GROUPS IN GHANA 85
11. Chapter 5 STUDYING CONFLICT AND ETHNICITY THROUGH PERFORMATIVE AND AUDIO-VISUAL RESEARCH METHODS Examples from Cameroon 105
12. Part II CONFLICT AND IDENTIFICATION, INTERESTS AND INTEGRATION
13. Chapter 6 THE TOPOGRAPHY OF TERRORISM Between Local Conflicts and Global Jihad 135
14. Chapter 7 POLITICS OF BELONGING AND THE LITMUS TEST OF RETALIATION 154
15. Chapter 8 HEROES AND IDENTITIES Relativism, Myth and Reality 174
16. Chapter 9 ‘KOŠTA AKWA’ What an Italian Pidgin Poem from Tigray Says about Self-Image, Resistance and Conflict 186
17. Chapter 10 INTEGRATION THROUGH CONFLICT The Proliferation of Mutually Constituted Sacred Narratives in the Process of State (Re-)Formation in Ethiopia 196
18. Chapter 11 ‘A DIMPLED SPIDER, FAT AND WHITE’ US Exceptionalism and the Accumulation of Terror 216
19. Part III MIGRATION AND EXCLUSION, DISPLACEMENT AND EMPLACEMENT
20. Chapter 12 FROM BASES OF IDENTIFICATIONS TO ACTS OF EXCLUSION? Günther Schlee’s Contributions to the Max Planck Research Initiative on Migration 239
21. Chapter 13 DILEMMAS OF IDENTIFICATION The Trader’s Dilemma among Khorezmians in Tashkent 255
22. Chapter 14 IS MIGRATING A RATIONAL DECISION? Motives and Procedures of Qazaq Repatriation 272
23. Chapter 15 TRANSNATIONAL COMMUNITIES AND SHIFTING MORAL VALUES Migrants between the Netherlands and the Moluccas 291
24. Chapter 16 MULTISCALAR SOCIAL RELATIONS OF DISPOSSESSION AND EMPLACEMENT 308
25. EPILOGUE Emancipatory Cosmopolitanism or Global Neighbourhood? 335
26. AFTERWORD Charisma: Ethnographers and Their Host Societies 347
27. INTERVIEW WITH GÜNTHER SCHLEE, HALLE (SAALE), 10 DECEMBER 2018 357
28. TO GÜNTHER SCHLEE, WITH THANKS . . . 377
29. PUBLISHED WORKS BY GÜNTHER SCHLEE (SELECTION) 381
30. INDEX 395