Charles Jędrej and the ‘Deep Rurals’

A West African model moves to the Sudan, Ethiopia, and beyond

Datos Bibliográficos

ID9285181
AutoresWendy James (0009-0002-0753-3056, University of Oxford, autor de correspondencia)
Año2015
Volumen8
Número1
Páginas32-46
Fecha de publicación2015-05-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaCritical African Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 2040-7211 • E-ISSN: 2168-1392
EditorialTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/21681392.2015.1007284
OpenAlexW2467520759
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3
Referencias citadas28

From his original fieldwork in West Africa, Jędrej moved to teach at the University of Khartoum and pursue further research in the Sudan, especially in the Ingessana Hills of the upper Blue Nile. Here he sought to explore underlying connections between the peripheral minorities of that region and their common involvement in the wider patterns of central Sudanese history. In this project he adopted, and developed, the concept of ‘deep rurals’ from the work of Murray Last. This article shows how effective his work was in helping to break down the old oppositions between ‘state’ and ‘stateless’ societies, and even ‘urban’ and ‘rural’ life. It shows how his application of the ‘deep rurals’ idea has been taken up by others, particularly archaeologists working in the culturally heterogeneous regions of western Ethiopia. The concept informs Jędrej's own later research in Scotland, and might indeed have wider relevance in today's age of hi-tech communications

Ethnology · Political science · Relevance (law · Sociology · State (computer science · Stateless protocol · Work (physics · African history and culture analysis · African Studies and Ethnography · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Gender Studies · History · Law