Research Catalog

Title

Peasants and the Ethiopian state : agricultural producers' cooperatives and their reflections in Amharic oral poetry : a case study in Yetnora, East Gojjam, 1975-1991 / by Getie Gelaye.

Author

Gelaye, Getie.

Publication

Münster ; London : Lit Verlag, [2000]

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Details

Description

xx, 207 pages : illustrations, maps; 22 cm.

Series Statement

Forschungen zu Sprachen und Kulturen Afrikas ; Bd. 7 = Research on African languages and cultures ; v. 7 = Recherches sur les langues et cultures africaines ; v. 7

Uniform Title

Forschungen zu Sprachen und Kulturen Afrikas ; Bd. 7.

Subject

• Folk poetry, Amharic
• Land reform > Ethiopia
• Land reform in literature
• Land reform
• Landwirtschaft Motiv
• Lyrik
• Mündliche Literatur
• Landwirtschaftsgenossenschaft Motiv
• Ethiopia
• Godjam > Ost
• Äthiopien
• Amharisch

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Ch. 1. Introduction -- Ch. 2. Oral Poetry: Definitions and Studies -- Ch. 3. The Study Area: Its Physical, Historical and Social Characteristics -- Ch. 4. Observing, Identifying and Analysing Genres, Occasions and Perforamnces of Amharic Oral Poetry in Yetnora -- Ch. 5. The Land Reform: The Establishment of Peasants' Associations and Agricultural Producers' Cooperatives in Rural Ethiopia -- Ch. 6. The APC and the Role of Oral Poetry in Yetnora -- Ch. 7. Categories and Factions within the Cooperative and Relations Between the Cooperative and the Surrounding Population -- Ch. 8. Oral Poetry and Political Change: Peasants' Reflections Concerning the Change of Government -- App. 1. Photographs of Selected Informants, Singers, Poets and Performances of Amharic Oral Poetry and Songs in Yetnora -- App. 2. Brief Biographies of Ten Selected Informants -- App. 3. List of Amharc Oral Poetry Collected from Yetnora, East Gojjam

ISBN

• 3825846830
• 9783825846831

LCCN

2002390723

OCLC

• ocm44651700
• 44651700
• SCSB-1226651

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library