Greater Ethiopia
The Evolution of a Multiethnic Society
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Table of Contents

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
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
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