Greater Ethiopia : the evolution of a multiethnic society /
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| Author / Creator: | Levine, Donald N., 1931-2015 |
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| Imprint: | Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 1974. |
| Description: | xv, 229 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Phoenix books (Chicago, Ill P721. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Local Note: | University of Chicago Library's copy 7 in UCPress has original dust jacket. University of Chicago Library's copy 8 in UCPress is a Phoenix Book. |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/59376 |
Table of Contents:
- List of Tables
- Preface 2000 Preface
- 1. Conventional Images of Ethiopia
- A Far-Off Place Ethiopia the Pious
- A Magnificent Kingdom Savage Abyssinia
- A Bastion of African Independence
- 2. Scholarly Images and Assumptions
- An Outpost of Semitic Civilization
- An Ethnic Museum
- An Underdeveloped Country
- A Complex Evolving System
- 3. The Differentiation of Peoples and Cultures Lines of Internal
- Differentiation Lines of External Influence
- The Peoples of Ethiopia: A Classification
- 4. Foundations of Unity Greater
- Ethipia as a Relational Network Greater
- Ethiopia as a Culture Area
- The Ethiopian Response to Alien Influence
- 5. Patters of Expansion and Unification
- Centers of Expansion before 1300
- The Amhara Thesis
- The Oromo Antithesis
- The Ethiopian Synthesis
- 6. Four Questions
- 7. Tigrean Legacy: A National Script
- The Kibre Negest: A Reassessment Prologue, Narrative, and Epilogue
- The Kibre Negest as a National Epic A Cultural Identity Struggle
- The Tigrean Contribution
- 8. The Amhara System Household, Seignory, and Parish
- The Nation as a Community Functional Specialization
- Hierarchical Interaction
- Individualistic Association System
- Stability and Historical Change
- 9. The Oromo System Oila, Lineage, and Class
- The Agnatic Community Functional
- Redundancy Egalitarian Interaction Solidaristic
- Association System Instability and Historical Change
- 10. Comparisons and Explanations
- The Question of Amhara Expansions
- The Questions of the Oromo Victories
- The Question of Amhara-Tigrean Resurgence The Question of Oromo Affiliation
- 11. Social Evolution in Ethiopia Holistic
- Specialization Mutalistic
- Specialization Internal
- Specialization: The Formation of Ruling Elites
- Despecialization and New Evolutionary Potential
- Internal Specialization: The Creation of Free-floating Resources
- The Present Evolutionary Situation
- The Evolution of Ethiopian Society
- Appendix: Roster of the Peoples of Ethiopia
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Addendum to the Bibliography
- Index