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Ethiopia

Books

Articles

2018. Foreword. 

In The State of Status Groups in Ethiopia: Minorities Between Marginalisation and Integration, edited by Susanne Epple. Berlin: Reimer.

2015. Techniques of Happiness: Moving Toward and Away from the Good Life in Rural Ethiopia.

Special Issue: Happiness – Horizons of Purpose. HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, 5, 3: 157-176.

2013. Pentecostalism in a Rural Context: Dynamics of Religion and Development in Southwest Ethiopia.

PentecoStudies 12,2: 231-249.

2013. Value Chains for Development: An Ethnography of Pro-Poor Market Interventions in Ethiopia. 

Anthropology of This Century, Issue 6.

2012. Development and the Rural Entrepreneur: Pentecostals, NGOs and the Market in the Gamo Highlands, Ethiopia. 

In Pentecostalism and Development: Churches, NGOs and Social Change in Africa, edited by Dena Freeman. London: Palgrave Macmillan.

2009. Development and (Un)happiness: A Case Study from Rural Ethiopia. 

In Gross National Happiness: Practice and Measurement, edited by K Ura and Dorje Penjore. Centre for Bhutan Studies, Thimpu.

2006. Who are the D’ache? And Who are the Gamo?: Confusions of Ethnicity in Ethiopia’s Southern Highlands. 

In Proceedings of the 15th International Conference of Ethiopian Studies, edited by Siebert Uhling. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag.

2003. Understanding Marginalisation in Ethiopia. 

In Peripheral People: The Excluded Minorities of Ethiopia, edited by Dena Freeman and Alula Pankhurst. London: Hurst.

2003. Gamo.

In Peripheral People: The Excluded Minorities of Ethiopia, edited by Dena Freeman and Alula Pankhurst. London: Hurst.

2003. Change and Development: Lessons from the Twentieth Century. (Co-authored with Alula Pankhurst)

In Peripheral People: The Excluded Minorities of Ethiopia, edited by Dena Freeman and Alula Pankhurst. London: Hurst.

2002. From Warrior to Wife: Cultural Transformation in the Gamo Highlands of Ethiopia. 

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 8:34-44. (*This article won the Curl Essay Prize of the Royal Anthropological

Institute, 2000) Download

2002. Theorising Change. 

In Initiating Change in Highland Ethiopia: Causes and Consequences of Cultural Transformation, by Dena Freeman. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

2000. The Generation of Difference: Initiations in Gamo, Sidamo and Boran (Oromo).

Northeast African Studies, 7,3 (N.S):35-57. Download

2000. Cultural Variation in Southern Ethiopia: An Introduction.

Northeast African Studies, 7,3 (N.S): 15-20.

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