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Title:A Note on Space in the Ethiopian Revolution
Author:Donham, Donald L.ISNI
Year:1993
Periodical:Africa: Journal of the International African Institute
Volume:63
Issue:4
Pages:583-590
Language:English
Geographic term:Ethiopia
Subjects:revolutions
nationalism
Politics and Government
External link:https://www.jstor.org/stable/1161007
Abstract:There have been two major approaches to spatial analysis in social and cultural anthropology. The first insists that distance is culturally categorized, that a person's experience of space is relative to particular ways of dividing and conceptualizing spatial relations. The second approach, most often associated with central-place theory, takes the opposite tack. Distance, in this view, has certain universal predicates; for example, the inherent difficulty of transporting goods with a simple technology means that markets in agrarian societies have a limited set of recurrent features - no matter how space is locally encoded. These two modes of analysis are often taken as mutually exclusive. In this article it is suggested that neither can be neglected if large-scale transformations like social revolutions are to be understood in their complexity. In the course of developing a pioneering study of the role of peasants in revolutions Eric Wolf (1969) offered the beginnings of a general theory. After summarizing some of his hypotheses, the author confronts them with data from the Ethiopian revolution as it unfolded during 1975 in an area called Maale in southern Ethiopia. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. in English and French.
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