Marxist Modern

An Ethnographic History of the Ethiopian Revolution

Häftad, Engelska, 1999

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Beskrivning

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

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:1999-01-01
Mått:156 x 234 x 18 mm
Vikt:396 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:288
Förlag:James Currey
ISBN:9780852552643

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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. -

Innehållsförteckning

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.