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Being and becoming Oromo : historical and anthropological enquiries

Title
Being and becoming Oromo : historical and anthropological enquiries / edited by P.T.W. Baxter, Jan Hultin, and Alessandro Triulzi.
Publication
Uppsala : Nordiska Afrikainstitutet : Lawrenceville, N.J. : Red Sea Press, Inc., 1996.

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Additional Authors
  • Baxter, P. T. W. (Paul Trevor William)
  • Hultin, Jan.
  • Triulzi, Alessandro.
Description
310 p. : ill., maps; 25 cm.
Subject
  • Oromo (African people) > Ethnic identity
  • Oromo (African people) > History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [291]-307).
Language (note)
  • Some passages in Oromo with facing English translations.
Contents
Hawani's story / Hawani Debella and Aneesa Kassam -- The Development of Oromo political consciousness from 1958 to 1994 / Herbert S. Lewis -- The Survival and reconstruction of Oromo national identity / Mekuria Bulcha -- The Development of Oromo nationalism / Mohammed Hassen -- Perceiving Oromo : 'Galla' in the great narrative of Ethiopia / Jan Hultin -- Oromumma : tradition, consciousness and identity / Gemetchu Megerssa -- Re-examining the Galla/Oromo relationship : the stranger as a structural topic / Thomas Zitelmann -- Being Gabra today / Paolo Tablino -- Shifting identities along resource borders : becoming and continuing to be Boorana Oromo / Gufu Oba -- The political viability of Boorana pastoralism : a discussion of some features of the political system of the Borana Pastoralists of Southern Ethiopia / Johan Helland -- Power's ambiguity or the political significance of Gada / Marco Bassi -- Sources of life and identity / Gudrun Dahl -- Towards a comparative ethnography of the Oromo : the importance of affines / P.T.W. Baxter -- Keeping the peace of the Waso Boorana : becoming Oromo through religious diversification / Mario I. Aguilar -- Traditional and modern cooperatives among the oromo / Tesema Taá -- The becoming of place : a Tulama-Oromo region of Northern Shoa / Odd Eirik Arnesen -- Adopting an ambiguous position : Oromo relationships with strangers / Hector Blackhurst -- United and divided : Boorana and Gabaro among the Macha Oromo in Western Ethiopia / Alessandro Triulzi -- The Poetics of Nationalism : a poem by Jarso Waaqo Qoot'o / Abdullahi A. Shongolo.
Call Number
Sc E 96-969
ISBN
  • 917106379X
  • 1569020345
LCCN
96211988
OCLC
35730990
Title
Being and becoming Oromo : historical and anthropological enquiries / edited by P.T.W. Baxter, Jan Hultin, and Alessandro Triulzi.
Imprint
Uppsala : Nordiska Afrikainstitutet : Lawrenceville, N.J. : Red Sea Press, Inc., 1996.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [291]-307).
Language
Some passages in Oromo with facing English translations.
Added Author
Baxter, P. T. W. (Paul Trevor William)
Hultin, Jan.
Triulzi, Alessandro.
Research Call Number
Sc E 96-969
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