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| Title: | The Southern marches of imperial Ethiopia: essays in history and social anthropology |
| Editors: | Donham, Donald James, Wendy |
| Chapter(s): | Present |
| Year: | 1986 |
| Issue: | 51 |
| Pages: | 308 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | African studies series (ISSN 0065-406X) |
| City of publisher: | Cambridge |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University press |
| ISBN: | 0521322375 |
| Geographic term: | Ethiopia |
| Subjects: | economic history anthropology history |
| Abstract: | Collection of essays which offer a new approach to the understanding of imperial Ehthiopia, out of which the present state was created by the 1974 revolution. Contents: 1. Old Abyssinia and the new Ethiopian empire: themes in social history (D. Donham) - Nekemte and Addis Abeba: dilemmas of provincial rule (A. Triulzi) - From ritual kings to Ethiopian landlords in Maale (D. Donham) - Institutionalizing a fringe periphery: Dassanetch-Amhara relations (U. Almagor) - Lifelines: exchange marriage among the Gumuz (W. James) - A problem of domination at the periphery: the Kwegu and the Mursi (D. Turton) - Coffee in centre-periphery relations: Gedeo in the early twentieth century (C.W. MCclellan) - Vicious cycles: ivory, slaves, and arms on the new Maji frontier (P.P. Garretson) - On the Nilotic frontier: imperial Ethiopia in the southern Sudan, 1898-1936 (D.H. Johnson) - Epilogue (W. James) |
