Disaster, relief and political change in southern Ethiopia: developments from within Suri society

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Title:	Disaster, relief and political change in southern Ethiopia: developments from within Suri society
Author:	Abbink, Jon
Book title:	Disaster and development in the Horn of Africa / ed. by John Sorenson. - Basingstoke [etc.]: Macmillan Press; New York, N.Y.: St. Martin's Press
Year:	1995
Pages:	151-170
Language:	English
Geographic term:	Ethiopia
Subjects:	Suri political change famine
External link:	https://hdl.handle.net/1887/9091
Abstract:	This chapter describes responses to the ecological crisis and political changes in Ethiopia in the early 1990s among the Suri, an agropastoral group in Käfa Region, southern Ethiopia. Data are derived from fieldwork carried out in the area after the change of regime in 1991. Attention is paid to environmental conditions and the Suri subsistence system, relations between the Suri and neighbouring ethnic groups, drought and famine in the area, in particular in the 1980s, and the Suri attitude towards the interventions of outside agencies, interethnic conflict in the period 1984-1993, Suri recovery and adaptation in the early 1990s, and the effects of drought, famine, and political upheaval on Suri socioeconomic organization, local political relations, and ethnic identities and interethnic relations. Bibliogr., notes, ref.