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List of Figures and Tables; List of Contributors; Preface Introduction: The Practice of War; Elisabeth Colson PART I: CHANGING QUALITIES OF VIOLENCE: CASE STUDIES FROM AFRICA Chapter 1. 'We Turned our Enemies into Baboons': Warfare, Ritual and Pastoral Identity among the Pokot of Northern Kenya; Michael Bollig and Matthias Österle Chapter 2. Culture Slipping Away: Violence, Social Tension and Personal Drama in Suri Society, Southern Ethiopia; Jon Abbink Chapter 3. Catholics and Cannibals: Terror and Healing in Tooro, Western Uganda; Heike Behrend PART II: MEMORY, TRAUMA AND REDEMPTION Chapter 4. Coming Through Slaughter: The Herero of Namibia, 1904-1940; Jan-Bart Gewald Chapter 5. Trauma,

This paper looks at the pre-colonial, colonial and post colonial bureaucracy of Uganda as a polity. It observes that there were many polities in the pre-colonial era which included kingdoms as in the case of Buganda, Bunyoro, Nkore and Tooro; and chiefdoms as in case of Acholi and other areas. The paper therefore analyzes the pre-colonial bureaucracy of Uganda taking into account the heterogeneity of different administration arrangements that existed at that time. The colonial and post-colonial Uganda was largely homogenous. The paper concludes that none of the three phases of administration (pre-colonial, colonial and post-colonial) experienced a strict Weberian type of bureaucracy.

Les Haalpulaaren (Toucouleur) émigrent, non plus pour échapper aux invasions, à la colonisation ou pour propager l'islam, mais pour acquérir de nouvelles sources de revenus. En dépit des programmes de mise en valeur du fleuve Sénégal, singulièrement dans la région historique du Fuuta Tooro, cette vallée naguère si prospère souffre, à présent, d'une stagnation économique. Au fur et à mesure de la pénétration de l'économie monétaire, les migrations se sont intensifiées et réorientées. D'abord internes, provisoires, saisonnières, n'affectant qu'une fraction de la population active masculine, elles tendent à devenir urbaines et internationales - de Dakar à Libreville et Yaoundé, en passant par Abidjan et l'ouest forestier de la Côte-d'Ivoire -, à s'élargir à d'autres couches de la population (familles, très jeunes adultes), revêtant un caractère plus définitif

Park, Thomas K.: Arid lands and the political economy of flood recession agriculture in Fuuta Tooro. - S. 1-30. Tabor, Joe: Soils of the lower, middle, and upper Senegal River Valley. - S. 31-50. Frankenberger, Timothy; Lynham, Mark: Household food security and coping strategies along the Senegal River Valley. - S. 51-86. Park, Thomas K.; Baro, Mamadou; Ngaido, Tidiane: Crisis of nationalism in Mauritania. - S. 87-121. Rogers, Glenn R.: Impact of land tenure patterns on local income generation in Mauritania. - S. 125-144. Ngaido, Tidiane: Land tenure and social structure of the Halaybe. - S. 145-182. Ngaido, Tidiane: The Boghe pilot perimeter. - S. 183-223. Park, Thomas K.: Privatization and development. The case of the Dirol Plain. - S. 224-254. Baro, Mamadou: Mauritania and irrigated development projects. The case of the Gorgol pilot perimeter. - S. 255-289. Park, Thomas K.: Ecology and risk management. Stratified common property and flood recession agriculture. - S. 293-330

The 1980-90's have been a golden age, that of the "Pulaar movement" where Fula language (Pulaar or Fulfulde), the fourth most widely spoken African language, has been the subject of extensive mobilization for his writing in adapted Latin script. This cultural and social movement surprises for two reasons : firstly, its relative magnitude, duration and popular involvement, on the other hand, the choice of the Latin script though Fula is written in Arabic script from at least the 18th century.The central question chosen to study this cultural nationalism reinvested by development actors was to understand what pulaar movement can reveal about haalpulaar society (or "toucouleur") and vice versa. Reading and writing in their mother tongue does change anything? How scriptural skills and practices are socially constructed ? How do they participate in individual and collective construction ? How do they affect social relationships ? In response, Pulaar literacy should be addressed in its pluriscriptural and digraphic context. The other two most common written languages in Fuuta Tooro have been therefore considered : the French, the official and public education language, facilitating social mobility and international migration, and Arabic, the religious language of a "power-knowledge" perpetuating social and political establishment but also the language of some commercial and migratory networks.Centered on social anthropology of writing close to New Literacy Studies, the approach chosen was global and multidisciplinary. ; Les années 1980-90 ont été celles d'un âge d'or, celui du « mouvement pulaar » où la langue peule (pulaar ou fulfulde), quatrième langue africaine la plus parlée, a fait l'objet d'une vaste mobilisation en faveur de son écriture en graphie latine adaptée. Ce mouvement culturel et social surprend à deux titres : d'une part, sa relative ampleur, sa durée et son ancrage populaire, d'autre part, le choix de l'écriture latine alors que le peul s'écrit en caractères arabes depuis au moins le XVIIIè siècle.La ...