Marxist Modern An Ethnographic History of the Ethiopian Revolution

Name: Marxist Modern An Ethnographic History of the Ethiopian Revolution
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ISBN: 9780520213296

ISBN-10: 0520213297

ISBN-13: 9780520213296

Edition: 1999

Authors: Donald L. Donham

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Modernity has become a keyword in a number of recent intellectual discussions. In this book, Donald L. Donham shows that similar debates have long occurred, particularly among peoples located on the margins of world power and wealth. Based on extensive fieldwork in Ethiopia--conducted over a twenty-year period--Marxist Modernprovides a cultural history of the Ethiopian revolution that highlights the role of modernist ideas. Moving between the capital, Addis Ababa, and Maale, the home of a small ethnic group in the south, Donham constructs a narrative of upheaval and change, presenting local people's understandings of events, as these echoed with and appropriated stories of other world…

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List price: $31.95
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 6/25/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 262
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Orientations: On Jazz, Modernity, and Ethnographic History


Acknowledgments


Introduction: Genealogies of the Modern and the Anti-Modern



The Metanarrative of Modernity in Ethiopia: 1974



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 Center: Cold War Deterritorializations



The Revolutionary State at the Grass Roots: Modernist Institutions in Maale during the 1980s


Afterword / Afterward


Notes


Bibliography


Index