Marxist modern : an ethnographic history of the Ethiopian revolution
by
 
Donham, Donald L. (Donald Lewis)

Title
Marxist modern : an ethnographic history of the Ethiopian revolution

Author
Donham, Donald L. (Donald Lewis)

ISBN
9780520213289
 
9780520213296
 
9780852552698
 
9780852552643

Personal Author
Donham, Donald L. (Donald Lewis)

Publication Information
Berkeley : University of California Press ; Oxford [England] : J. Currey, c1999.

Physical Description
xxvi, 236 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Contents
Orientations: On Jazz, Modernity, and Ethnographic History -- Introduction: Genealogies of the Modern and the Anti-Modern -- 1. The Metanarrative of Modernity in Ethiopia: 1974 -- 2. Revolution within a Revolution: Divine Kings and Zemecha Students in Maale -- 3. Revolution as a Return to Tradition in Maale -- 4. The Dialectic of Modernity in a North American Christian Mission -- 5. The Cultural Construction of Conversion in Maale -- 6. Marxist Modernism at the Ethiopian Center: Cold War Deterritorializations -- 7. The Revolutionary State at the Grass Roots: Modernist Institutions in Maale during the 1980s.

Subject Term
Communism -- Ethiopia -- Gamo Gofa Kifle Håger -- History -- 20th century.
 
Christianity and politics -- Ethiopia -- Gamo Gofa Kifle Håger -- Evangelicalism -- History -- 20th century.
 
Male (African people) -- Politics and government.
 
Male (African people) -- Cultural assimilation.
 
Male (African people) -- Religion.
 
Communism -- Ethiopia -- History -- 20th century.

Geographic Term
Gamo Gofa Kifle Håger (Ethiopia) -- Politics and government.
 
Gamo Gofa Kifle Håger (Ethiopia) -- Religion.
 
Ethiopia -- Politics and government -- 1974-1991.

Electronic Access
Publisher description http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/ucal042/98043144.html


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IIEMSAGeneral Books33168015747062963.05 D682M 19991