Zerihun Abebe Woldeselassie

Hjemmeside: http://uib.academia.edu/ZerihunWoldeselassie

Stilling: stipendiat

Telefon: 55 58 92 50

Mobiltelefon: na

E-post: Zerihun.Woldeselassie@sosantr.uib.no

Besøksadresse: Fosswinckelsgt. 6

I am a social and visual anthropologist working mainly on Ethiopia and Africa. My major research topics include Ethnicity, Identity Politics, Clanship, Islam, Islamic Reformism, Muslims’ Identities, Sufism, Ethnographic Film, Representation and Indignity.

The Topic of my Mphil Thesis was “Minority Identity and Ethnic Politics in Ethiopia: The Case of the Weyto” December 2001. In this thesis I explored the incompatibilities between the current Ethiopia state politics of Ethnicity vis-à-vis the complexity of identity processes by focusing on an indigenous group of people called the Weyto. In my PhD project I continued with the general theme of Identity Politics focusing on Islam and ethnicity.

Regional keywords: Africa, Ethiopia

Thematic keywords: Islam, Ethnicity Formation, Identity Politics, Politica

Publikasjoner i Cristin

Select publications
[forthcoming] Negotiating Wali Venerating Practices In Ethiopia: Islamic reformist Movement and Identity Politics in Siltie, in Muslim Ethiopia: Transforming Identities and New Representations, Terje Østebø and Patrick Desplat (eds). Palgrave.

[Forthcoming] Re-thinking Ethnicity in Ethiopia: Identity and Group Formation among the Siltie. Africa.

2010. The Weyto. Encyclopaedia Aethiopica Vol.4. Berlin: Harrassowitz Verlag, pp. pp.1162-1164

2007. Contested popular Islamic practices among Ethiopian Muslims : the case of warrie among the Siltie. Kolor: Journal on Moving Communities, 7(1).

2004. Ethnic Politics and the Question of Participatory Development in Siltie, Ethiopia. Ethiopian Journal of the Social Sciences and Humanities, 2(1):123-140.

2001. Minority Identity and Ethnic Politics in Ethiopia: the Case of the Weyto in Lake Tana area - National Discourse and Local Reality. MPHIL thesis. Univeristy of Tromsø, ps 90.

 

Ethnographic Films
2002. Conversation with the Weyto. Visual Cultural Studies, UiTø.

2002. DRIV (Student House) Tromsø. Visual Cultural Studies, UiTø.

 

 

Mphil Project: 16.08.99- 28.12.01, University of Tromsø, Norway

PhD Project: 01-01-2005 – 30-06-2007, University of Bergen, Norway

Islam Project: 01.10.2007 - 18.05.2009, IMMRC, Ku Leuven, Belgium