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Record Nr.

UNINA9910462643203321

Autore

Hamer John H. <1926-2016.>

Titolo

Humane Development [[electronic resource] ] : Participation and Change Among the Sadama of Ethiopia

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, 2010

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (297 p.)

Disciplina

305.8963

306/.089935

Soggetti

Acculturation

Acculturation -- Ethiopia -- Case studies

Case studies

Ethiopia

Rural development

Rural development -- Ethiopia -- Case studies

Sidamo (African people)

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Illustrations; A Note on Orthography; 1. Introduction; 2. The People and Their Environment; 3. Origins and History; 4. Kinship, Hierarchy, and Resource Distribution; 5. Marriage and the Sexual Division of Labor; 6. Beliefs, Ritual, and Authority; 7. Authority and Social Control; 8. The Process of Change; 9. Self-Help Associations for Change; 10. Theories of Development and the Future of the Self-Help Movement; 11. Conclusion; Notes; Glossary; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

""Hamer has produced a very well-written ethnographic analysis of development and change among the Sadama, a Cushitic-speaking people living along the Rift Valley...The analysis attempts to show how traditional modes of decision making and living adapt to or are adapted to impinging forces of modernization.  Hamer's emphasis on humane development is highly appropriate and his analysis is very successful.  The focus on inevitable and constant change, and the continuing



evolution of the society, makes this study a particularly useful one because the lessons of the Sadama can be generali