Conflict Age & Power in N E Africa (Eastern African Studies): Age Systems in Transition - Hardcover

Kurimoto, Eisei

9780821412404: Conflict Age & Power in N E Africa (Eastern African Studies): Age Systems in Transition

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 082141240X ISBN 13: 9780821412404

Publisher: Ohio University Press, 1998

Age systems are involved in the competition for power. They are part of an institutional complex that makes societies fit to wage war. This book argues that in postcolonial North East Africa, with its recent history of national political conflict and civil and regional wars, the time has come to reemphasize the military and political relevance of age systems. Herein is new information about age systems in North East Africa, setting them firmly in a wider spatial and temporal context. Topics examined are regional age systems, the decline of some systems and the persistence of others, the way women are included or excluded, and the politicization and militarization of age systems in national political conflicts and civil wars.

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Review:

This welcome volume is a substantial contribution to our knowledge of age-systems. --SOAS Bulletin

Provides a new theoretical framework for East African ethnography and a challenge for anthropologists of politics, religion and nationalism. --Cambridge Anthropology

Synopsis:

Taking age systems as referring to all systems of age-grades, age-sets, and generation-sets as distinct from kinship systems, argues that in post-colonial North East Africa, they are part of an institutional complex that makes societies fit to wage war. Presents new information about age systems in the region and sets them in a wider spatial and te

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