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The Trans-Mareb Past in the Present

The Journal of modern African studies, 1997-06, Vol.35 (2), p.321-334, Article S0022278X97002462 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

1997 Cambridge University Press ;Copyright 1997 Cambridge University Press ;Copyright Cambridge University Press, Publishing Division Jun 1997 ;ISSN: 0022-278X ;EISSN: 1469-7777 ;DOI: 10.1017/S0022278X97002462 ;CODEN: JMAFAU

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  • Title:
    The Trans-Mareb Past in the Present
  • Author: ABBAY, ALEMSEGED
  • Subjects: Africa ; African studies ; Ammunition ; Collective memory ; Colonialism ; Cultural history ; Emperors ; Eritrea ; Governors ; History ; International relations ; Nationalism ; Political identity ; Politics ; Rivers (Mareb) ; Sociology and Anthropology ; War
  • Is Part Of: The Journal of modern African studies, 1997-06, Vol.35 (2), p.321-334, Article S0022278X97002462
  • Description: The beast lives unhistorically; for it ‘goes into’ the present, like a number, without leaving any curious remainder ... But man is always resisting the great and continually increasing weight of the past; it presses him down and bows his shoulders. – Friedrich Nietzsche, The Use and Abuse of History (Indianapolis, 1949), p. 5. If the past is ‘dead’, it dances, a lively corpse indeed, on new graves everywhere almost every day in whatever kind of time. – Harold Isaacs, Idols of the Tribe (Cambridge, MA, 1989), p. 121. THE past has a social purpose of stressing the virtues of courage, endurance, and sacrifice. Picturesque folkloric characters such as Robin Hood and Nicholas Chauvin become models for selflessness and patriotism. The term chauvinisme, which appeared in France by the 1840s, for instance, did not carry any negative connotations. Instead, it helped the nation-state to inculcate a sense of oneness in its people, who began to say ‘Nouns sommes tous français, Chauvin’. The past, thus, has a double mission. It is both therapeutic and vital political ammunition.
  • Publisher: Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISSN: 0022-278X
    EISSN: 1469-7777
    DOI: 10.1017/S0022278X97002462
    CODEN: JMAFAU
  • Source: Alma/SFX Local Collection
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