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Title:A Century of Ethiopian Historiography
Author:Bahru ZewdeISNI
Year:2000
Periodical:Journal of Ethiopian Studies
Volume:33
Issue:2
Period:November
Pages:1-26
Language:English
Notes:biblio. refs.
Geographic terms:Ethiopia
Northeast Africa
Subjects:historiography
History and Exploration
History, Archaeology
Historical analysis
oral history
Addis Ababa University. Dept. of History
External link:https://www.jstor.org/stable/41966106
Abstract:Professional historiography in Ethiopia is barely four decades old. The Department of History of Addis Ababa University (formerly Haile Sellassie I University) has emerged as its institutional home. The integration of teaching and research has become its hallmark. Historical research in the department has been conducted at two levels: faculty and student. There has been a perceptible shift in geographical focus from the north to the south of Ethiopia. The temporal scope has shifted to the modern period, more specifically the twentieth century. A major development of recent Ethiopian historiography has been the change of emphasis from political history to economic and to some extent social history. Urban history has been another important theme of research. By contrast, the Department's record with respect to archaeology and art history has been unimpressive. Moreover, the Department has failed to disseminate much of its research findings and this has put it at a disadvantage vis-à-vis practitioners of popular and alternative history, including those writers whose works reflect an explicit political agenda. Notes, ref. [ASC Leiden abstract]
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