[Organized Session at International Conferences] “New Developments in East African Pastoralist Violence: Perspectives from Japanese and U.S. Anthropology” (110th Annual Meeting of American Anthropological Association) (Montreal, QC, Canada / November 15-24, 2011)

Dr. Jon D. Holtzman (Western Michigan University), a member of project network oversea, organized a panel session titled “New Developments in East African Pastoralist Violence: Perspectives from Japanese and U.S. Anthropology”. Four Japanese project members, Dr. Itaru Ohta (Project leader, Kyoto University), Dr. Toru Soga (Hirosaki University), Dr. Toru Sagawa (Kyoto University), and Dr. Kyoko Nakamura (Kyoto University), and Dr. Jon D. Holtzman presented papers in the session.

Dr. Toru Soga presenting his paper and Dr. Jon D. Holtzman, a session organizer

Chairs: Itaru Ohta (Kyoto University)
Discussants: Richard P Werbner (University of Manchester)

• “Individual Amity and Collective Enmity: Social Relationships between the Turkana and Refugees in Kakuma Area, Northwestern Kenya”
  Itaru Ohta (Kyoto University)
• “Ethnic Conflict and New Ties between Pastoral Groups in Southern Ethiopia”
  Toru Soga (Hirosaki University)
• “After ‘Getting Drunk with Kalashnikovs’: Violence and Spontaneous Order In the Kenya-Ethiopia Borderland”
  Toru Sagawa (Kyoto University)
• “Masculine Image and “Warrior Identities” of the Samburu In Northern Kenya”
  Kyoko Nakamura (Kyoto University)
• “Glocalizing in the Barrel of a Gun: Firearm Choice and Discourses of Identity and Difference in Northern Kenya”
  Jon D Holtzman (Western Michigan University)

Prof. John Galaty (center) invited us to his home dinner party. He is an anthropologist at McGill University in Montreal

Notre-Dame Basilica in Montreal