Cristin-prosjekt-ID: 468752
Sist endret: 27. oktober 2015, 12:16

Cristin-prosjekt-ID: 468752
Sist endret: 27. oktober 2015, 12:16
Prosjekt

Ethnicity and Islam in Ethiopia

prosjektleder

Zerihun Abebe Woldeselassie
ved Senter for fredsstudier (CPS) ved UiT Norges arktiske universitet

prosjekteier / koordinerende forskningsansvarlig enhet

  • Universitetet i Bergen

Klassifisering

Vitenskapsdisipliner

Sosialantropologi

Emneord

Identitet • Language and identity • Ethnicity and Modernity • Religion and Identity • Identitetspolitikk • Local Islamic Institutions • Tilhørighet • Etnisitet • Islam • Politisk antropologi

Kategorier

Prosjektkategori

  • Doktorgradsprosjekt

Tidsramme

Avsluttet
Start: 15. august 2008 Slutt: 23. oktober 2015

Beskrivelse Beskrivelse

Tittel

Ethnicity and Islam in Ethiopia

Populærvitenskapelig sammendrag

The research project has both a theoretical and empirical significance. Empirically, studying the situation of the Eastern Gurage is important for at least three major reasons. First, the study is important because it will provide new ethnographic material particularly on descent and territorial based ethnicities among the Eastern Gurage population. Second, the study also provide a new ethnographic material on Islamisation processes, the relevance of this process to Eastern Gurage ethnicity formations. Since Islam in general and ethnicity and Islam in particular, is relatively understudied in the region compared to, for example, Jimma (Ishihara 1996), Wallo (Hussein Ahmed 2001), Harar (Desplat 2005), and Bale (Østebø 2012) such a study may contribute to the understanding of the historical and contemporary configuration of ethnicity and Islam in the Gurage region. Third, the study is also significant because it challenges existing hypothesis about the question of ethnicity and ethnic politics among the Gurage in general and the Eastern Gurage in particular.

While the most important contribution of the research project is to contribute to our understanding of the Eastern Gurage based on the empirical description and analysis I offer, the study also has a theoretical significance since it may help us to reflect on the conventional conception of ethnicity in anthropology or related disciplines. The case also helps us reflect on the commonplace articulation of the terms of the debate in ethnicity studies in the form of two allegedly contrasting perspectives, namely constructivism versus primordialism.

Vitenskapelig sammendrag

The Projects aims to critically analyse new configuration of ethnicity and Islam in the post-socialist Ethiopia, based on the description and analysis of the case of the Eastern Gurage.

Metode

Historical-anthropological approach, Ethnography, Context analysis, Event-analysis, Practice analysis, Cases-study

prosjektdeltakere

prosjektleder

Zerihun Abebe Woldeselassie

  • Tilknyttet:
    Prosjektleder
    ved Senter for fredsstudier (CPS) ved UiT Norges arktiske universitet
  • Tilknyttet:
    Prosjektleder
    ved Institutt for sosialantropologi ved Universitetet i Bergen
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Resultater Resultater

Ethnicity: Identity and Belonging. New configuration of ethnicity and Islam among the eastern Gurage of Ethiopia.

Woldeselassie, Zerihun A. 2015, Universitetet i Bergen. UIBDoktorgradsavhandling

Ethnicity, Belonging and Identity among the Eastern Gurage of Ethiopia.

Woldeselassie, Zerihun A. 2017, Ethnicities. UITVitenskapelig artikkel

Wali venerating practices, identity politics, and Islamic reformism among the Siltie.

Woldeselassie, Zerihun A. 2013, Palgrave Macmillan. UIT, UIBVitenskapelig Kapittel/Artikkel/Konferanseartikkel

The Weyto.

Woldeselassie, Zerihun. 2010, Harrassowitz Verlag. UIBVitenskapelig Kapittel/Artikkel/Konferanseartikkel
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