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Peasants and Feudalism in Africa: The Case of Ethiopia
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(1974). Peasants and Feudalism in Africa: The Case of Ethiopia. Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des etudes africaines: Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 155-157.
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“The Imperial system was based on the exploitation of the peasants who used to receive a piece of land in return for serving a lord (Cohen, 1974).”
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“This system was recognized as pairing a bureaucratic monarchy and local noblemen, who often quarreled with each other, against a deeply oppressed peasantry who did not consider themselves citizens and who usually, spoke different languages and worshipped different deities, were subjugated and dehumanized (Cohen, 1974;Ghose, 1985;Bekele et al., 2016).”
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- Guy Hunter, Modernizing Peasant Societies:, 1969, A Comparative Study in Asia and Africa
- 1965, A People of the Ensete Culture
- Examples of the literature on the concept of “peasants” are: L. A. Fallers, “Are African Cultivators to Be Called ‘Peasants’?” Current Anthropology, II, 2(1961), pp. 108–1 10. George M. Foster “Introduction: What is a Peasant?” in Peasant Society , edited by Jack M. Potter, May N. Diaz and George M. Foster (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1967), pp. 2–14. George Dalton, Tribal and Peasant Economies (Garden City, N.Y.: Natural History Press, 1967), pp. 543–544. On the concept of “feudalism” see: Jack Goody, “Feudalism in Africa?” Journal of African History , IV, 1(1963), pp. 1–18. J. M. H. Beattie, “Bunyoro: An African Feudality?” Journal of African History , V, 1(1964), pp. 26–27.
- The basic in-depth studies on Ethiopian land tenure are: H. C. Dunning, “Land Reform in Ethiopia: A Case Study in No Development,” U.C.L.A. Law Review , XVIII 2(1970), pp. 270–307. Haile Menkerios, “The Present Systems of Land Tenure in Ethiopia: An Introduction,” Challenge (Journal of the Ethiopian Students of North America), X, 2(1970), pp. 4–24. Richard K. Pankhurst, State and Land in Ethiopia (Addis Ababa: Oxford University Press, 1966). J. C. D. Lawrence and H. S. Mann, “FAO Land Policy Project (Ethiopia),” Ethiopia Observer , IX, 4(1966); pp. 286–336.
- The problems which result from such generalities are illustrated in Allan Hoben. “Social Anthropology and Development Planning in Ethiopia,” Journal of Modern African Studies , X. 4(1972), pp. 564–567.
- Reports on Land Tenure Survey of Arassi. Bale. Begemder-Simien. Eritrea, Gernu Gofa, Illubabor, Kefa. Shoa. Sidamo. Tigre. Welo and Wollega
- On communal tenure see: Allan Hoben, “The Role of Ambilineal Descent Groups in Gojjam Amhara Social Organization” (unpublished Ph.d. dissertation. University of California at Berkeley. 1963). S. F. Nadel, “Land Tenure on the Eritrean Plateau,” Africa. XVI, 1,2(1946), pp. 1–22, 99–109. Ambaye Zakaryas, Land Tenure in Eritrea (Addis Ababa, Addis Ababa Press, 1966).
- Private tenure is described in Pankhurst, 1970, State and Land, passim.
- The nature of church land and tenure is understudied. In general see: Pankhurst, State and Land, passim. For the few isolated studies see: Haile Gabriel Dagne, “The Gebzna Charter of 1886, E. C.” Journal of Ethiopian Studies , X, 2,(1972), p. 67–80. G. W. B. Huntingford, The Land Charters of Northern Ethiopia (Addis Ababa: Oxford University Press, 1965).
- The principal government land sltflies are: V. E. M. Burke and F. A. Thornley, 1969, Policy Oriented Study of Land Settlement
- The principal study directing itself to Ethiopian feudalism is: Frederick C. Gamst. “Peasants and Elites Without Urbanism: The Civilization of Ethiopia,” Comparative Studies in Society and History. XII, 4(1970), pp. 373–392. See Also: Tameral Delegne, “Feudalism in Ethiopia” (unpublished paper presented to Interdisciplinary Seminar, Haile Sellassie I University, Addis Ababa, 1971). Mahtama Sellassie Wolde Maskal, “Land Tenure and Taxation from Ancient to Modern Times,” Ethiopia Observer , I, 9(1957): 283–301. Trends away from feudalism are discussed in: John Markakis, “Social Formation and Political Adaptation in Ethiopia” (unpublished paper presented to the 15th Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association, Philadelphia, 1972). · DOI
- The extractive nature of Ethiopian tenancy is set forth in: Kebede Koomsa., 1969, Challenge, 11, 25
- The dilemma of land reform in Ethiopia is discussed in: Doreen Warriner, “A Report on Land Reform in Ethiopia” (unpublished paper prepared for the Economic Commission for Africa, Addis Ababa, 1970). Dunning, “Land Reform in Ethiopia,” pp. 270–307.
- A Profile of the Ethiopian Economy
- The basic studies on stratification are: Donald N. Levine, “Class Consciousness and Class Solidarity in the New Ethiopian Elites,” in Elites in Tropical Africa , edited by Peter Lloyd (Oxford University Press, 1966), pp. 312–327. Levine, Wax and Gold. pp. 148–217. Allan Hoben. “Social Stratification in Traditional Amhara Society,” in Social Stratification in Africa , edited by Arthur Tuden and Leonard Plotnicov (New York: The Free Press, 1970), pp. 187–224. John M. Cohen. Sociological Profile of Provincial Elites in Chilalo Awraja (Addis Ababa: Chilalo Agricultural Development Unit, Special Studies Series no. 4, 1972). Wolfgang Weissleder, “The Political Ecology of Amhara Domination (unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. University of Chicago, 1965).
- The principal work on rural Ethiopia is: H. HufTnagel, 1961, Agriculture in Ethiopia
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- Authors
- Cohen, J. M.
- Affiliations
- University of Colorado.
- Corresponding author
- Cohen, John M.
- Venue
- Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 1974-01
- Volume
- 8
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 155-157
- ISSN
- 0008-3968 (ISSN-L)
- 1923-3051
- OpenAlex
- W1551825283
- Cited by
- 2
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2021: 2
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- 0.00
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- fr
- Open access
- hybrid
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- cc-by
- Locations
- Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines (publishedVersion)
- Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › African history and culture analysis
- Social Sciences › Development › Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
- Social Sciences › Anthropology › African history and culture studies
- Keywords
- peasants, feudalism, Ethiopia, agrarian relations, land tenure, rural society
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