Teferi Abate Adem
Biographic Data
| ID | 82332 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Teferi Abate Adem |
| GIVEN NAMES | Teferi Abate |
| FAMILY NAME | Adem |
| SIGNATURE | ADEM T A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Yale University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4467-9345 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 37 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The role of social customs, community bylaws, and enforcement mechanisms in conserving the sacred forests of Zege Peninsula, Lake Tana, Ethiopia
This study examined the roles of social customs, community bylaws, and enforcement mechanisms in conserving the sacred forests of the Zege Peninsula, located along Lake Tana, Ethiopia. It draws on rich qualitative data gathered through a combination of participant observations and semi-structured interviews. The data were analyzed using content and thematic analysis. This study employed political ecology and community-based conservation approache…
Aspects of local beliefs, spiritual practices and rituals performed along Abay River in Ethiopia
This ethnographic research explores local people’s cultural interactions with Abay River through systematic analysis of religious beliefs, rituals and sacrificial practices. We relied on interpretive understanding of cultural, and to some extent historical information, collected by a combination of in-depth interviews and participant observation, among communities in Wetet Abay area. Interviews and daily observational notes were interpreted colle…
Ethiopian Warriorhood: Defence, Land and Society, 1800–1941
Predictors of Land Privatization: Cross-Cultural Tests of Defendability and Resource Stress Theory
We have known for some time that complex societies are more likely to have land tenure systems based on private rights and less likely to have communal ownership. Less understood is why. More specifically, what are the mechanisms to explain why complex societies have more private property? What are the adaptive advantages of one system rather than the other? Conceptualizing and coding land tenure systems as a "bundle of rights," this worldwide cr…
Warfare, atrocities, and political participation: Eastern Africa
Purpose Ember et al. (1992) addressed whether the “democracies rarely fight each other” hypothesis held true in the anthropological record of societies of various sizes and scales around the world. They indeed found that more participatory polities had less internal warfare – or warfare between one society’s territorial units (e.g. bands, villages, districts). The purpose of this paper is to examine when political participation would have similar…
Rain and Raids Revisited: Disaggregating Ethnic Group Livestock Raiding in the Ethiopian-Kenyan Border Region
Focusing on livestock raiding, a major form of violence in arid and semiarid regions, we evaluate the relationship between rainfall and intensity of violence, disaggregating ethnic groups that have somewhat different subsistence patterns. We do so to try to resolve previously published results and conclusions that appear contradictory – some research finding livestock violence higher in wet times suggestive of more violence in times of plenty; ot…
Risk, Uncertainty, and Violence in Eastern Africa: A Regional Comparison
Livestock Raiding and Rainfall Variability in Northwestern Kenya
In 2009, Witsenburg and Adano summarized their research on rainfall variability and livestock raiding in Marsabit District, Kenya. They found that livestock-related violence was higher in wetter months and wetter years, contrary to the common assumption that scarcity of water and pasture is the primary driver of livestock violence. Our research, focusing on the neighboring Turkana District of northwestern Kenya, attempted to replicate the Witsenb…
The Local Politics of Ethiopia's Green Revolution in South Wollo
This article argues that Ethiopia's agricultural extension program, which received more government funding and donor support than other similar programs in Africa, reinforced the rural presence and authoritarian powers of the ruling party while largely failing to improve smallholder agriculture. The principal reason for this outcome has to do with the systematic entanglement of the Green Revolution package delivery system with the immediate goal …
Decentralised There, Centralised Here: Local Governance and Paradoxes of Household Autonomy and Control in North-East Ethiopia, 1991-2001
This article discusses whether Ethiopia's recent reorganisation into broadly decentralised, ethnically based regions was also accompanied by significant changes in the images and administrative practices through which state powers have been locally understood and experienced by ordinary citizens. Different scholars and politicians have viewed the local effects of these changes differently. Government officials and some scholars report ‘radical re…
Ethiopia since the Derg: A Decade of Democratic Pretension and Performance
Preface - Christopher Clapham 1. Democratisation in Ethiopia: Some Notes on Theory and Methodology - Siegfried Pausewang, Kjetil Tronvoll and Lovise Aalen 2. A Process of Democratisation or Control? The Historical and Political Context - Siegfried Pausewang, Kjetil Tronvoll and Lovise Aalen 3. Women are not corrupt: The Elections in Addis Ababa in a Gender Perspective - Marta Camilla Wright 4. Prospects for Democracy, Agro-ecology and Civil Socie…
The Local Politics of Ethiopia's Green Revolution in South Wollo
This article argues that Ethiopia's agricultural extension program, which received more government funding and donor support than other similar programs in Africa, reinforced the rural presence and authoritarian powers of the ruling party while largely failing to improve smallholder agriculture. The principal reason for this outcome has to do with the systematic entanglement of the Green Revolution package delivery system with the immediate goal …
Livestock Raiding and Rainfall Variability in Northwestern Kenya
In 2009, Witsenburg and Adano summarized their research on rainfall variability and livestock raiding in Marsabit District, Kenya. They found that livestock-related violence was higher in wetter months and wetter years, contrary to the common assumption that scarcity of water and pasture is the primary driver of livestock violence. Our research, focusing on the neighboring Turkana District of northwestern Kenya, attempted to replicate the Witsenb…
Decentralised There, Centralised Here: Local Governance and Paradoxes of Household Autonomy and Control in North-East Ethiopia, 1991-2001
This article discusses whether Ethiopia's recent reorganisation into broadly decentralised, ethnically based regions was also accompanied by significant changes in the images and administrative practices through which state powers have been locally understood and experienced by ordinary citizens. Different scholars and politicians have viewed the local effects of these changes differently. Government officials and some scholars report ‘radical re…
Risk, Uncertainty, and Violence in Eastern Africa: A Regional Comparison
Rain and Raids Revisited: Disaggregating Ethnic Group Livestock Raiding in the Ethiopian-Kenyan Border Region
Focusing on livestock raiding, a major form of violence in arid and semiarid regions, we evaluate the relationship between rainfall and intensity of violence, disaggregating ethnic groups that have somewhat different subsistence patterns. We do so to try to resolve previously published results and conclusions that appear contradictory – some research finding livestock violence higher in wet times suggestive of more violence in times of plenty; ot…
Predictors of Land Privatization: Cross-Cultural Tests of Defendability and Resource Stress Theory
We have known for some time that complex societies are more likely to have land tenure systems based on private rights and less likely to have communal ownership. Less understood is why. More specifically, what are the mechanisms to explain why complex societies have more private property? What are the adaptive advantages of one system rather than the other? Conceptualizing and coding land tenure systems as a "bundle of rights," this worldwide cr…
Warfare, atrocities, and political participation: Eastern Africa
Purpose Ember et al. (1992) addressed whether the “democracies rarely fight each other” hypothesis held true in the anthropological record of societies of various sizes and scales around the world. They indeed found that more participatory polities had less internal warfare – or warfare between one society’s territorial units (e.g. bands, villages, districts). The purpose of this paper is to examine when political participation would have similar…
Ethiopia since the Derg: A Decade of Democratic Pretension and Performance
Preface - Christopher Clapham 1. Democratisation in Ethiopia: Some Notes on Theory and Methodology - Siegfried Pausewang, Kjetil Tronvoll and Lovise Aalen 2. A Process of Democratisation or Control? The Historical and Political Context - Siegfried Pausewang, Kjetil Tronvoll and Lovise Aalen 3. Women are not corrupt: The Elections in Addis Ababa in a Gender Perspective - Marta Camilla Wright 4. Prospects for Democracy, Agro-ecology and Civil Socie…
Decentralised There, Centralised Here: Local Governance and Paradoxes of Household Autonomy and Control in North-East Ethiopia, 1991-2001
This article discusses whether Ethiopia's recent reorganisation into broadly decentralised, ethnically based regions was also accompanied by significant changes in the images and administrative practices through which state powers have been locally understood and experienced by ordinary citizens. Different scholars and politicians have viewed the local effects of these changes differently. Government officials and some scholars report ‘radical re…
Livestock Raiding and Rainfall Variability in Northwestern Kenya
In 2009, Witsenburg and Adano summarized their research on rainfall variability and livestock raiding in Marsabit District, Kenya. They found that livestock-related violence was higher in wetter months and wetter years, contrary to the common assumption that scarcity of water and pasture is the primary driver of livestock violence. Our research, focusing on the neighboring Turkana District of northwestern Kenya, attempted to replicate the Witsenb…
The Local Politics of Ethiopia's Green Revolution in South Wollo
This article argues that Ethiopia's agricultural extension program, which received more government funding and donor support than other similar programs in Africa, reinforced the rural presence and authoritarian powers of the ruling party while largely failing to improve smallholder agriculture. The principal reason for this outcome has to do with the systematic entanglement of the Green Revolution package delivery system with the immediate goal …
Risk, Uncertainty, and Violence in Eastern Africa: A Regional Comparison
Rain and Raids Revisited: Disaggregating Ethnic Group Livestock Raiding in the Ethiopian-Kenyan Border Region
Focusing on livestock raiding, a major form of violence in arid and semiarid regions, we evaluate the relationship between rainfall and intensity of violence, disaggregating ethnic groups that have somewhat different subsistence patterns. We do so to try to resolve previously published results and conclusions that appear contradictory – some research finding livestock violence higher in wet times suggestive of more violence in times of plenty; ot…
Warfare, atrocities, and political participation: Eastern Africa
Purpose Ember et al. (1992) addressed whether the “democracies rarely fight each other” hypothesis held true in the anthropological record of societies of various sizes and scales around the world. They indeed found that more participatory polities had less internal warfare – or warfare between one society’s territorial units (e.g. bands, villages, districts). The purpose of this paper is to examine when political participation would have similar…
Ethiopian Warriorhood: Defence, Land and Society, 1800–1941
Predictors of Land Privatization: Cross-Cultural Tests of Defendability and Resource Stress Theory
We have known for some time that complex societies are more likely to have land tenure systems based on private rights and less likely to have communal ownership. Less understood is why. More specifically, what are the mechanisms to explain why complex societies have more private property? What are the adaptive advantages of one system rather than the other? Conceptualizing and coding land tenure systems as a "bundle of rights," this worldwide cr…
Aspects of local beliefs, spiritual practices and rituals performed along Abay River in Ethiopia
This ethnographic research explores local people’s cultural interactions with Abay River through systematic analysis of religious beliefs, rituals and sacrificial practices. We relied on interpretive understanding of cultural, and to some extent historical information, collected by a combination of in-depth interviews and participant observation, among communities in Wetet Abay area. Interviews and daily observational notes were interpreted colle…
The role of social customs, community bylaws, and enforcement mechanisms in conserving the sacred forests of Zege Peninsula, Lake Tana, Ethiopia
This study examined the roles of social customs, community bylaws, and enforcement mechanisms in conserving the sacred forests of the Zege Peninsula, located along Lake Tana, Ethiopia. It draws on rich qualitative data gathered through a combination of participant observations and semi-structured interviews. The data were analyzed using content and thematic analysis. This study employed political ecology and community-based conservation approache…
Political science (8 works) · Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology (7 works) · African history and culture analysis (6 works) · Economics (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Geography (4 works) · Political economy (4 works) · Democracy (3 works)