Wendy James


Wendy James is a professor of social anthropology at the University of Oxford.


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Remapping EthiopiaOn Sale

Socialism & After

Governance everywhere is concerned with spatial relationships. Modern states “map” local communities, making them legible for the purposes of control. Ethiopia has gone through several stages of “mapping” in its imperial, revolutionary, and postrevolutionary phases.…


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Southern Marches of Imperial Ethiopia

Essays in History and Social Anthropology

This pioneering book, first published to wide acclaim in 1986, traces the way the Ethiopian center and the peripheral regions of the country affected each other. It looks specifically at the expansion of the highland Ethiopian state into the western and southern lowlands from the 1890s up to 1974.…

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