By simultaneously analysing unfolding events in Addis Ababa and Maale, and juxtaposing this with brief contrasting and confirming events and processes of the classic revolutions of France, Russia and China, Donham paints a fascinating picture of a peripheral people's experience of revolution and situates it within a national and global context...a very readable and sometimes even amusing book. -

- John Young, JOURNAL OF MODERN AFRICAN STUDIES

Donham, unlike so many researchers who lived through various aspects of African revolutions, is able to analyse the impact of revolutionary reforms critically and without the gloss that has managed to obscure the complexities of revolution in the past. -

- Christine Mason, ASAAP

Examines the events of 1974 from Maale as well as from Addis to give a view from the margins of the state. Modernity has become a keyword in a number of intellectual debates: in marginal areas of the world as much as its centres of power and wealth. Investigating Ethiopia during the 1974 revolution, Donald Donham constructs a narrativeof upheaval and change, presenting locals' views on the events. North America: University of California Press
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Examines the events of 1974 from Maale as well as from Addis to give a view from the margins of the state.
Orientations - on jazz, modernity and ethnographic history; introduction - genealogies of the modern and the anti-modern; the metanarrative of modernity in Ethiopia - 1975; revolution within a revolution - divine kings and "zemecha" students in Maale; revolution as a return to tradition in Maale; the dialectic of modernity in a North American Christian mission; the cultural construction of conversion in Maale; Marxist modernism at the Ethiopian centre - cold war deterritorializations; the revolutionary state at the grass roots - modernist institutions in Maale during the 1980s; afterword/afterward.
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ISBN
9780852552643
Publisert
1999
Utgiver
James Currey
Vekt
396 gr
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
UU, UP, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
288

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