Books by Donald L. Donham

Is Marxism a reflection of the conceptual system it fights against, rather than a truly comprehensive approach to human history? Drawing on work in anthropology, history, and philosophy, this title confronts this problem in analyzing a radically different social order: the former Maale kingdom of southern Ethiopia.

This ethnographic analysis of violence that broke out in a South African gold mine soon after apartheid ended in 1994 shows how violence comes to be blamed on ethnic differences retrospectively-and often wrongly.