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Title: | A Century of Ethiopian Historiography |
Author: | Bahru Zewde |
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] |