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"The book looks at various effects of globalization on Nuer society such as changes in their social structure and the creation of a strong desire to counter their societies' marginalization. It is based on a multi-sited ethnography 'following the people' from Funyido refugee camp in Gambelle/Ethiopia and adjacent villages in the Ethio-Sudanese borderlands to Des Moines/Iowa in the US, and back to the borderlands. While the books' [i.e. book's] particular focus is on the transnational linkages created through US based churches built up in the homeland by Nuer missionaries, it also contains case studies from other social, political and military fields. The ethnography reveals how individual agency in these institutions striving for leadership and power and the search for 'advancement' and modernity follows patterns familiar from the lineage structure. The outcome of these practices are processes of fission that dramatically endanger collective cohesion and advance further marginalization for the Nuer."--Page [4] of cover.
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Nuer (African people), Social conditions, Refugees, Religion, Sudanese, South SudanesePlaces
Sudan, Iowa, Ames, United StatesTimes
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The global Nuer: transnational life-worlds, religious movements and war
2015, Rüdiger Köppe Verlag
in English
3896459082 9783896459084
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Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Halle an der Saale, 2006, under the title: The global Nuer : modes of transnational livelihoods.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [257]-270).
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