2007 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Development and Resistance: Development of Plantation and Pastoralist's Tactics of Resistance in south western Ethiopia
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16401031
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 海外学術 |
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| Research Field |
Cultural anthropology/Folklore
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| Research Institution | Osaka Prefecture University |
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Principal Investigator |
MIYWAKI Yukio Osaka Prefecture University, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Professor (60174223)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2004 – 2007
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| Keywords | Development / Ethiopia / agro-pastoralist / resistance / tactics for survival / Tsamako / Tsamai |
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| Research Abstract |
Birale Cotton Plantation was established in 1991 on the western bank of the Weito river. The area was the territory of the Tsamako, Cushitic agro-pastoralists. At the time, the territorial groups called the Unchete and Duma, on whose territories the plantation was located, had been fighting with the Konso, a neighboring ethnic group. Due to the warfare, those groups had been prevented from using the large pasture along the river. Though the plantation deterred the warfare, it opposed with the Duma who were prevented from utilizing the pasture due to the expansion of the plantation. The plantation attempted to negotiate with them through the good offices of the Tsamako chief, but failed. In 1996 some of the Duma people assaulted the plantation, and killed workers. The rebels were arrested and killed by the armed policemen dispatched by the local government. Since then the plantation expanded their field without any consultation with the local people, and established a town nearby.
In 2008, nearly 100 agro-pastoralists households resided around the town. One of the groups consists mostly from the Unchete households who have been cooperated with the plantation. They lead a well established life depending on cattle herding and cultivation on the irrigated fields given by the plantation. The clan of the chief has gained concessions in the plantation by having some members employed in it. Destitute households due to drought and famine had often immigrated to the town. Most of them had returned back to their homeland after having rebuilt their herd, but some of them have settled around the town. They have been earned money as petty merchant selling wild edible plants on the street, or as day laborers in the plantation, and have gradually been assimilated to the highlanders' community in the town. Most of the Duma households, who once opposed with the plantation, still keep away from staying near the town.
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[Journal Article] Hor memory of Sidaama conquest2006
Author(s)
Yukio MIYAWAKI
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Journal Title
Ivo Strecker, Jean Lydall(eds. ) The Perils of Face : Essays on cultural contact, respect and self-esteem in southern Ethiopia, Berlin : Lit Verag
Pages: 185-206
Description
「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
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[Journal Article] Hor memory of Sidaama conquest.2006
Author(s)
Yukio MIYAWAKI
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Journal Title
Ivo Strecker, Jean Lydall (eds.) “The Perils of Face : Essays on cultural contact, respect and Face: Essays on cultural contact, respect and self-esteem in southern Ethiopia", Berlin : Lit Verag
Pages: 185-206
Description
「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
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