Chapter 6 Mobility, Knowledge and Power: Craftsmen in the Borderland

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations vii
4. List of Maps, Figures and Tables ix
5. List of Abbreviations xi
6. Introduction 1
7. Space and Time: Introduction to the Geography and Political History 15
8. Part I Identification and Insecurity in the Lower Omo Valley
9. Chapter 1 The Fate of the Suri: Conflict and Group Tension on the South-West Ethiopian Frontier 33
10. Chapter 2 Resistance and Bravery: On Social Meanings of Guns in South-West Ethiopia 53
11. Chapter 3 Modernization in the Lower Omo Valley and Adjacent Marches of Eastern Equatoria, Sudan: 1991–2000 77
12. Part II Institutions of Identification and Networks of Alliance among Rift Valley Agriculturalists
13. Chapter 4 Burji: Versatile by Tradition 87
14. Chapter 5 The Significance of the Oral Traditions of the Burji for Perceiving and Shaping their Inter-ethnic Relations 103
15. Chapter 6 Mobility, Knowledge and Power: Craftsmen in the Borderland 113
16. Part III Land, Identification and the State in Ethiopia
17. Chapter 7 ‘We Have Been Sold’: Competing with the State and Dealing with Others 133
18. Chapter 8 Identity, Encroachment and Ethnic Relations: the Gumuz and their Neighbours in North- Western Ethiopia 155
19. Chapter 9 Debates over Culture in Konso since Decentralization (1991) 173
20. Chapter 10 Changing Alliances of Guji-Oromo and their Neighbours: State Policies and Local Factors 191
21. Part IV Pastoralists in the Kenya–Ethiopia Borderlands
22. Chapter 11 Changing Alliances among the Boran, Garre and Gabra in Northern Kenya and Southern Ethiopia 201
23. Chapter 12 Roads to Nowhere: Nomadic Understandings of Space and Ethnicity 225
24. Bibliography 241
25. Notes on Contributors 253
26. Index 257