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Being and becoming Oromo : historical and anthropological enquiries / edited by P.T.W. Baxter, Jan Hultin, and Alessandro Triulzi.

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 > Congresses
  • Oromo (African people) > History > Congresses
Genre/Form
History
Note
  • Papers originally presented at a workshop which was held in Gottenburg in Oct., 1994.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [291]-307).
Language (note)
  • Some passages in Oromo with facing English translations.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
  • Hawani's story / Hawani Debella and Aneesa Kassam -- The development of Oromo political consiousness from 1958 to 1994 / Herbert S. Lewis -- The survival and reconstruction of Oromo national identity / Mekuria Bulcha -- The development of Oromo nationalism / Mohammed Hassen -- Percieving Oromo / Jan Hultin -- Oromumma : tradition, consiousness and identity / Gemetchu Megerssa -- Re-examining the Gallo-Oromo relationship / Thomas Zitelmann -- Being Gabra today / Paolo Tablino -- Shifting identities along resource borders / Gufu Oba -- The political viability of Boorana pastoralism / 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 / P.T.W. Baxter -- Keeping the "peace of the Waso Boorana" / Mario I. Aguilar -- Traditional and modern cooperatives among the Oromo / Tesema Ta'a.
  • The becoming of place / Odd Eirik Arnesen -- Adopting an ambiguous position / Hector Blackhurst -- United and divided / Alessandro Triulzi -- The poetics of nationalism / Abdullahi A. Shongolo.
ISBN
  • 1569020345
  • 917106379X
LCCN
^^^96211988^
OCLC
  • 35730990
  • SCSB-11906968
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library