INHALT: Preface: Mentor, Companion, and Friend – A Few Words about this Volume Georg Klute’s Professional Career I. Beside the State: African Politics and Beyond Erdmute Alber: Heterogeneity and Heterarchy – Middle-Class Households in Benin Dida Badi: Les modalités d'appropriation et de transmission des biens et du pouvoir chez les Touaregs sédentaires du Tassili n Ajjer Birgit Embaló: Violent Extremism, Islam and Youth in Guinea-Bissau Mario Krämer: The Current Debate on Neotraditional Authority in South Africa – Notes on the Legitimacy and Rise of Intermediaries Judith Scheele: Heterarchy, Locality, Connectivity, Tribes – can (and should) we speak of a Shared Political Culture across the Sahara? Petr Skalník: War as a Decisive Factor in State Formation – War and Peace in Africa. Local Conflict and the Weak State Magnus Treiber: Projecting Modernity – A Leitmotif in Eritrea's Struggle for Independence II. Legal Pluralism and Conflict Dereje Feyissa: Conflicting rights? Cultural and Women’s Rights in the Context of Ethiopia’s Legal Pluralism Lamine Doumbia: De la périphérie au centre-ville – Un terrain d'anthropologie juridique et politique Meron Zeleke: The Ambiguous Relationship Between State and Non-State Actors in Dispute Settlement in Contemporary Ethiopia Dieter Neubert: Decentralised Conflicts, Heterarchy and the Limits of Conflict Regulation Amal S.M. Obeidi: Local Reconciliation in Libya since 2011 – Actors, Processes, and Mechanisms III. The Anthropology of Work Isaie Dougnon: Coping with Age and Work – The Young Graduates’ Movement for Public Service in Mali (1987-2002) Anja Fischer: Expert Women in Nomadism – A Case Study about the Expertise of Work among Kel Ahnet Nomads in the Algerian Sahara Desert Georg Materna: The “Touristic Laobé” of Senegal – The Commodification of Culture in African Arts, Inc. IV. The Merits of Participant Observation Baz Lecocq: On Detailed Fieldwork Observations and Primordial Histories of Pastoral Animal Husbandry – The Cattle Line from the Neolithic to Present Tilman Musch / Mahama Abaliyi Sedike: Un mariage par rapt chez les Toubou Teda – Transgresser pour conserver la paix sociale Hanna Lena Reich: Exploring the Night – Fieldwork Experiences from Nairobi V. Discourses Kurt Beck: On Claiming Non-Creativity, or: ‘The One who has no Guide, his Guide is the Devil’ Michael Hauhs: Temporalities of Conservation – Human-Environment Relationships in an African National Park Gerd Spittler: De quelles choses l’homme a-t-il besoin ? La culture matérielle des Touaregs Kel Eweyweiterlesen