Publications of Felix Girke

Journal Article (2)

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Journal Article
Girke, Felix and Judith Beyer. 2015. Practicing harmony ideology: ethnographic reflections on community and coercion. Common Knowledge 21(2): 196–235. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-2872343.
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Journal Article
Girke, Felix. 2011. Plato on the Omo: reflections on decision-making among the Kara of southern Ethiopia. Journal of Eastern African Studies 5(1): 177–194.

Book Chapter (9)

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Book Chapter
Girke, Felix. 2016. The 'art of not being governed' in Ethiopia: towards a more dynamic approach to the highlands/lowlands academic divide. In: Ahmed Hassan Omer, Thomas Osmond, and Eloi Ficquet (eds.). Movements in Ethiopia: Ethiopia in movement; proceedings of the 18th International Conference of Ethiopian Studies 2. 1. ed. Los Angeles: Tsehai Publishers, pp. 13–25.
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Book Chapter
Girke, Felix. 2015. The uncertainty of power and the certainty of irony: encountering the state in Kara, Southern Ethiopia. In: Robert Hariman and Ralph Cintron (eds.). Culture, catastrophe, and rhetoric: the texture of political action. Studies in Rhetoric and Culture 7. New York: Berghahn, pp. 168–193.
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Book Chapter
Girke, Felix. 2014. Ethiopian images of self and other: essays on identification and stereotype. In: Felix Girke (ed.). Ethiopian images of self and other. Schriften des Zentrums für Interdisziplinäre Regionalstudien 2. Halle/Saale: Universitätsverlag Halle-Wittenberg, pp. 11–31.
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Book Chapter
Girke, Felix. 2014. Metaphors of the Moguji: self-defining othering in Kara political speech. In: Felix Girke (ed.). Ethiopian images of self and other. Schriften des Zentrums für Interdisziplinäre Regionalstudien 2. Halle/Saale: Universitätsverlag Halle-Wittenberg, pp. 147–169.
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Book Chapter
Girke, Felix and Christian Meyer. 2011. Introduction. In: Felix Girke and Christian Meyer (eds.). The rhetorical emergence of culture. 1. ed. Studies in Rhetoric and Culture 4. Oxford; New York: Berghahn, pp. 1–34.
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Book Chapter
Girke, Felix and Alula Pankhurst. 2011. Evoking peace and arguing harmony: an example of transcultural rhetoric in southern Ethiopia. In: Felix Girke and Christian Meyer (eds.). The rhetorical emergence of culture. 1. ed. Studies in Rhetoric and Culture 4. New York: Berghahn, pp. 225–250.
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Book Chapter
Girke, Felix. 2010. Bondfriendship and cultural neighborhood in South Omo. In: Echi Christina Gabbert and Sophia Thubauville (eds.). To live with others: essays on cultural neighborhood in southern Ethiopia. Mainzer Beiträge zur Afrikaforschung 27. Köln: Köppe, pp. 68–98.
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Book Chapter
Girke, Felix. 2008. The Kara-Nyangatom war of 2006-07: dynamics of escalating violence in the tribal zone. In: Eva-Maria Bruchhaus and Monika M. Sommer (eds.). Hot spot Horn of Africa revisited: approaches to make sense of conflict. Afrikanische Studien 37. Berlin: LIT, pp. 192–207.
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Book Chapter
Girke, Felix. 2006. Respect and humiliation: two 'First Contact' situations in southern Ethiopia. In: Ivo Strecker and Jean Lydall (eds.). The perils of face: essays on cultural contact, respect and self-esteem in southern Ethiopia. Mainzer Beiträge zur Afrikaforschung. Hamburg: LIT, pp. 109–149.

Thesis - PhD (1)

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Thesis - PhD
Girke, Felix Michael. The ädamo of the Kara: rhetoric in social relations on the lower Omo. PhD Thesis, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Halle/Saale.

Working Paper (1)

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Working Paper
Girke, Felix. 2013. Homeland, boundary, resource: the collision of place-making projects on the Lower Omo River, Ethiopia. Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology Working Papers 148. Halle/Saale: Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology.

Other (3)

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Other
Girke, Felix, Christian Meyer, and Michal Mokrzan. 2016. Rhetoric culture theory. Oxford Bibliographies. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/obo/9780199766567-0157.
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Other
Girke, Felix. 2014. Kara. Mursi Online: University of Oxford. http://www.mursi.org/neighbours/kara.
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Other
Girke, Felix. 2007. Die Ædamo der Kara: soziale Konvergenz und Divergenz am unteren Omo. Bericht/Max-Planck-Institut für ethnologische Forschung, Abteilung I: Integration und Konflikt 2007. https://www.eth.mpg.de/pubs/institute-reports/pdf/institute-report-2007-integration-and-conflict-de#page=114.

Book Review (6)

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Book Review
Girke, Felix. 2015. Van Heekeren, Deborah. 2012. The shark warrior of Alewai. A phenomenology of Melanesian identity. Wantage: Sean Kingston Publishing. 224 pp. Social Anthropology 23(2): 251–253. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1469-8676.12142.
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Book Review
Girke, Felix. 2015. Conquest and resistance in the Ethiopian Empire, 1880–1974: the case of the Arsi Oromo by Abbas H. Gnamo. Aethiopica 18: 272–276. DOI: https://doi.org/10.15460/aethiopica.18.1.842.
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Book Review
Girke, Felix. 2010. Pankhurst, Alula and Getachew Assefa (eds.). 2008. Grass-root justice in Ethiopia. The contribution of customary dispute resolution. Addis Ababa: Centre francais d'études éthiopiennes. Social Anthropology/Anthopologie Sociale 18(3): 371–372. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-8676.2010.00117_12.x.
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Book Review
Girke, Felix. 2010. F. G. Bailey, God-botherers and other true-believers: Gandhi, Hitler, and the religious right, New York: Berghahn Books, 2008. Anthropos 105(1): 257–258. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5771/0257-9774-2010-1-257.
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Book Review
Girke, Felix. 2009. Creativity and cultural improvisation by Elizabeth Hallam and Tim Ingold (eds.). Anthropology in Action 16(2): 79–80. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3167/aia.2009.160207.
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Book Review
Girke, Felix. 2008. Stefan Senders and Allison Truitt: Money. Ethnographic encounters. Anthropological Notebooks 14(2): 119–120.

Collected Edition (2)

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Collected Edition
Girke, Felix (ed.). 2014. Ethiopian images of self and other. Schriften des Zentrums für Interdisziplinäre Regionalstudien 2. Halle/Saale: Universitätsverlag Halle-Wittenberg.
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Collected Edition
Girke, Felix, Meyer, Christian (ed.). 2011. The rhetorical emergence of culture. 1. ed. Studies in Rhetoric and Culture 4. Oxford; New York: Berghahn.

Monograph (1)

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Monograph
Girke, Felix. 2018. The wheel of autonomy: rhetoric and ethnicity in the Omo Valley. Integration and Conflict Studies 18. New York; Oxford: Berghahn.

Film (1)

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Film
Girke, Felix and Steffen Köhn. 2007. Morokapel's feast: the story of a Kara hunting ritual. 26:00 min.

Blog Post (1)

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Blog Post
Beyer, Judith and Felix Girke. 2016. Naypyitaw: rescaling materiality, capitalizing space. focaal Blog. http://www.focaalblog.com/2016/03/24/judith-beyer-felix-girke-naypyitaw-rescaling-materiality-capitalizing-space/.
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