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Author Donham, Donald L. (Donald Lewis)

Title History, power, ideology : central issues in Marxism and anthropology / Donald L. Donham
Published Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, 1999

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 240 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents Homo economicus: A Maale mystery -- Epochal structures I: Reconstructing historical materialism -- Epochal structures II: An anatomy of Maale production -- History at one point in time: "Working together" in Bola, 1975 -- Appendix: Predicting the past from the future
Summary Is Marxism a reflection of the conceptual system it fights against, rather than a truly comprehensive approach to human history? This work confronts this problem in analyzing a radically different social order: the former Maale kingdom of southern Ethiopia
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-230) and index
Notes English
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Subject Male (African people) -- Politics and government
Male (African people) -- Economic conditions
Male (African people) -- Social conditions
Marxist anthropology -- Ethiopia
Marxian economics -- Ethiopia
Communism -- Ethiopia
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General
Communism
Economic history
Male (African people) -- Economic conditions
Marxian economics
Marxist anthropology
Politics and government
History & Archaeology.
Regions & Countries - Africa.
SUBJECT Ethiopia -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045147
Ethiopia -- Economic conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045133
Subject Ethiopia
Form Electronic book
LC no. 98050668
ISBN 9780520920798
0520920791
0585129975
9780585129976