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| Title: | The Process of Caste Formation in Ethiopia: A Study of the Beta Israel (Felasha), 1270-1868 |
| Author: | Quirin, James |
| Year: | 1979 |
| Periodical: | International Journal of African Historical Studies |
| Volume: | 12 |
| Issue: | 2 |
| Pages: | 235-258 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | Ethiopia |
| Subjects: | Falasha caste systems History and Exploration Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) |
| External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/218834 |
| Abstract: | Explains the process by which the Beta Israel (Felasha) were subjugated and incorporated into dominant Ethiopian society as an occupational caste by the nineteenth century. For the purpose of analysis, the paper is divided into three historical periods - 1270 to 1632, 1632 to 1755, and 1755 to 1868 - with emphasis on the latter. The critical variables which underlay the process of caste formation were the economic adjustments required because of the expropriation of Beta Israel land in the fifteenth century, and the full elaboration of mutual ideologies of social separation of mutual ideologies of social separation by the nineteenth century. Notes. |
