Wendy James

War and Survival in Sudan's Frontierlands: Voices from the Blue Nile

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This book completes a trilogy by the anthropologist Wendy James. It is a case study of how the Uduk-speaking people, originally from the Blue Nile region between the 'north' and the 'south' of Sudan, have been caught up in and displaced by a generation of civil war. Some have responded by defending their nation, others by joining the armed resistance of the Sudan People's Liberation Army, and yet others eventually finding security as international refugees in Ethiopia, and even further afield in countries such as the USA. Sudan's peace agreement of 2005 leaves much uncertainty for the future of the whole country, as conflict still rages in Da… Mehr

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ISBN: 978-0-19-929867-9
EAN: 9780199298679
Produktnummer: 22677179
Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
Seitenangabe: 304 S.
Masse: H21.7 cm x B14.8 cm x D2.4 cm 621 g
Gewicht: 621

Über den Autor

Wendy James is Professor Emeritus of Social Anthropology in the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of St. Cross College. She has carried out research in the Sudan and Ethiopia intermittently over four decades, and has long-standing academic links with universities and other institutions in the region of north-eastern Africa. She is a Fellow of the British Academy and has served as President of the Royal Anthropological Institute. She has published widely not onlyon Africa but on the history and current scope of anthropology, as well as acting on various occasions as a consultant to the UN and associated agencies. She was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Copenhagen in 2005.