The Socialist Derg Regime and Violence Against Kumpal Ethnomedicine in Ethiopia (1970s-80s).

IF 1.2 3区社会学 Q2 ANTHROPOLOGY

Medical Anthropology Pub Date : 2025-09-20 DOI:10.1080/01459740.2025.2563264

Desalegn Amsalu

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Abstract

The relationship between African governments and ethnomedical practices is marked by policy dilemma and ideological conflicts. Through an ethnographic study spanning 2016-17 and employing "violence" as an analytical framework, this article shows how the socialist Derg regime in Ethiopia (1974-1991) devastated ethnomedicinal practice of ethnic Kumpal. The regime persecuted practitioners, accusing them of aiding insurgents with bulletproofing remedies, dismissing their beliefs as feudal remnants, and coercing the community to renounce traditions through oathing. The article presents an uncommon case study of brutal forms of violence by an African socialist regime targeting its own people over their ethnomedical practices.

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社会主义德格政权和对埃塞俄比亚Kumpal民族医学的暴力（1970 -80年代）。

非洲各国政府与民族医学实践的关系以政策困境和意识形态冲突为特征。通过一项跨越2016-17年的民族志研究，并以“暴力”为分析框架，本文展示了埃塞俄比亚的社会主义德格政权（1974-1991）如何摧毁了Kumpal民族的民族医学实践。该政权迫害修炼者，指责他们用防弹疗法帮助叛乱分子，将他们的信仰视为封建残余，并强迫社区通过宣誓放弃传统。这篇文章提出了一个非洲社会主义政权针对其民族医学实践的野蛮暴力形式的罕见案例研究。

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