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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Donald Lewis Donham; Wendy James |
| ISBN: | 0852557949 9780852557945 0821414496 9780821414491 |
| OCLC Number: | 248628178 |
| Notes: | Originally published: Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1986. Revised versions of selected papers originally presented at a workshop of the Cambridge African Studies Centre in July 1979 and at a conference at Monterey, Calif.in March 1982 Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke |
| Description: | XIX, 308 Seiten Illustrationen, Diagramme, Karten 24 cm |
| Contents: | I THE MAKING OF AN IMPERIAL STATE Old Abyssinia & the new Ethiopian empire: themes in social history by Donald Donham - II RENEGOTIATING POWER & AUTHORITY Nekemte & Addis Ababa: dilemmas of provincial rule by Alessandro Triulzi - From ritual kings to Ethiopian landlords in Maale by Donald Donham - Institutionalizing a fringe periphery: Dassanetch-Amhara relations by Uri Almagor III REORIENTING KINSHIP & IDENTITY Lifelines: exchange marriage among the Gumuz by Wendy James - A problem of domination at the periphery: the Kwegu & the Mursi by David Turton IV EXPANDING TRIBUTE & TRADE Coffee in centre-periphery relations: Gedeo in the early 20th century by Charles W. McClellan - Vicious cycles: ivory, slaves & arms on the new Maji frontier by Peter P. Garretson - On the Nilotic frontier: imperial Ethiopia in the southern Sudan, 1898-1936 by Douglas H. Johnson - Epilogue by Wendy James - Select bibliography |
| Responsibility: | ed. by Donald L. Donham and Wendy James |
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This important volume ... reflects an entirely new departure in the study of Ethiopia ... Donald Donham's introductory essay 'Old Abyssinia and the New Empire' [is] a tour de force ... The overall quality of the papers is exceptional, with all authors employing an innovative approach to their topic... has set new standards against which future scholarship on northeast Africa must be measured. - -- Jim McCann * THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ORAL HISTORY * ... a valuable example of the fruitfulness of cross-disciplinary collaboration in the understanding of a particular historical time period. The methodology the contributors employed, which lays great stress on historical processes in the analysis of social forms, has wider ramifications than for the age of imperial Ethiopia; it lays groundwork for similar studies of the age of post-revolutionary Ethiopia. As Wendy James rightly notes in the Epilogue, the collection of essays represents in part a contribution to the new dialogue between Africanist history and social anthropology. Sir Edward Evans-Pritchard would be pleased. - -- William A. Shack * MAN * The book takes as its most general goals erasing the conceptual barrier that scholars have erected between Ethiopia and the rest of Africa and breaching the disciplinary divide between history and anthropology ... What makes this book so exciting and successful is how its contributors work toward these two goals. - -- Janet Ewald * THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF AFRICAN HISTORICAL STUDIES * Read more...
