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Author: Author's name as listed in Library of Congress records
Watson, Elizabeth E., 1968-
Title:
Making a living in the postsocialist periphery: struggles
between farmers and traders in Konso, Ethiopia
Published in: if part or section of a book or monograph
Africa -- Vol. 76, no. 1
Published By: Original publisher
Africa -- Vol. 76, no. 1
London: Oxford University Press. 2006. 70-87 p.
By line: Author's name as appearing in the actual publication
Elizabeth E. Watson
HRAF Publication Information: New Haven, Conn.:
Human Relations Area Files, 2016. Computer File
Culture: Culture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC) with the alphanumberic OWC identifier in parenthesis.
Konso (MP17)
Subjects: Document-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
Community structure (621);
Inter-community relations (628);
Ingroup antagonisms (578);
Congregations (794);
Religious intolerance and martyrs (798);
Social relationships and groups (571);
Friendships (572);
Form and rules of government (642);
Citizenship (641);
Real property (423);
Retail marketing (443);
Status, role, and prestige (554);
Lineages (613);
Age stratification (561);
Government regulation (656);
Community heads (622);
Acculturation and culture contact (177);
Abstract: Brief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
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.
Document Number: HRAF's in-house numbering system derived from the processing order of documents
9
Document ID: HRAF's unique document identifier. The first part is the OWC identifier and the second part is the document number in three digits.
mp17-009
Document Type: May include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs or chapters/parts of monographs.
Journal Article
Language: Language that the document is written in
English
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 85-86)
Field Date: The date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
1996-2002
Evaluation: In this alphanumeric code, the first part designates the type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigene, and so on. The second part is a ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data
Ethnologist-5
Analyst: The HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection.
Teferi Abate Adem
Coverage Date: The date or dates that the information in the document pertains to (often not the same as the field date).
1991-2002
Coverage Place: Location of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
Gamole, Konso Special Woreda, Southern
Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' Region, Ethiopia
LCSH: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Konso (African people)
