TY  - JOUR
AU  - Watson, Elizabeth E.
PY  - 2006
DA  - 2006//
TI  - Making a living in the postsocialist periphery: struggles between farmers and traders in Konso, Ethiopia
JO  - Africa
SP  - 70
EP  - 87
VL  - Vol. 76
IS  - no. 1
PB  - Oxford University Press
CY  - London
KW  - Konso (African people)
KW  - Konso
KW  - Community structure
KW  - Inter-community relations
KW  - Ingroup antagonisms
KW  - Congregations
KW  - Religious intolerance and martyrs
KW  - Social relationships and groups
KW  - Friendships
KW  - Form and rules of government
KW  - Citizenship
KW  - Real property
KW  - Retail marketing
KW  - Status, role, and prestige
KW  - Lineages
KW  - Age stratification
KW  - Government regulation
KW  - Community heads
KW  - Acculturation and culture contact
AB  - Following the advent of a new Ethiopian government in 1991, the traditional Konso homeland was constituted into an autonomous, self-governing administrative district. This article discusses the local consequences of the new regime’s policy emphasis on democracy, grassroots participation and, to some extent, market liberalization. One of the most important legacies of these policies has been transformation in the social standing and economic fortunes of a class of villagers who earned their living primarily from retail trade. Traditionally, these traders were regarded as an endogamous caste group, subordinate to farmers. The traders took advantage of economic liberalization and external trade links to earn more income, which they invested in buying agricultural land and building roadside commercial houses. This change reconfigured local power relations in favor of traders.
SN  - 0001-9720
UR  - https://ehrafworldcultures.yale.edu/document?id=mp17-009
LA  - English
N1  - Elizabeth E. Watson
ID  - mp17-009
Y1  - 2022-07-03
ER  -