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History, Power, Ideology: Central Issues in Marxism and Anthropology.
Africa Today, June, 2001 by McGovern, Mike
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Donham, Donald. 1999. HISTORY, POWER, IDEOLOGY: CENTRAL ISSUES IN MARXISM AND ANTHROPOLOGY. Berkeley: University of California Press. 240 pp.
In his History, Power, Ideology: Central Issues in Marxism and Anthropology, Donald Donham states that, "the goal of Marxism is not just to construct social theory. Its final aim is to provide the terms for understanding history in some specificity" (p. 18). Donham does just that for the Maale of southern Ethiopia. Using Maale ethnography as both the object of his study, and the vehicle for an extended theoretical discussion ...
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