Gl o s sa ry of t e r m s i n et h iopia n l a nguage s

This glossary contains all terms in Ethiopian languages mentioned in the chapters, following the spelling of the respective authors. Alternatives ways of spelling are mentioned only in so far as they appear in the publication. If no language is mentioned in
the explanation, the original language is Amharic.

abaddo, wife of oddobaddo, Bayso ritual expert
abbagahr, community elder in Rayya Qobbo highland, also holds religious positions andlitigates are conflict in some Muslim communities
adbar, ancestral spirits believed to be protector of the community and invoked during
zar cult
afaan Oromo, Oromo language
alama, Manjo expression for goal, aim, objective, intent or concern, also ‘another world
view’ or ‘different way of life’alamo, mediums in Kafa
andənnat, union
annasa, ‘minority group’ under the Derg regime
aqabit, post-menopausal female custodian or guardian of a church who prepares grain
for the Holy Communionayle, term used for slave descendants in Ganta and Wolayta
bakka, literally ‘half’, referring to proportion of sharing in animal sharing arrangementin Dawrobalabat (or balabbat), regional governor within the former semi/feudal system, also nobles in Rayya Qobbo area claiming to be descendants of the Solomonic dynasty
and original settlers of the community
balezar, knowledgeable individual of the zar cultbajje, hereditary status group in Bashada and Hamar, performing central rituals for
majority groupbarya, term for slaves and slave descendants in Rayya Qobbo highland area
Beta Israel, Ethiopian Jewish Community, also: falasha
biisho, Manjo term for untying, translating, interpreting
chakuchakwa, fourth flute of Kumpal’s fifi instrument
chefe, freshly cut grass

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the imperial government and during Italian occupation; intermediary between thestate and the local communities
cherfanna, ritual staff of wonno, Bayso ritual leader
ciico, Manjo term for advisingciigaheete, feeling of disgust of Kafa towards Manjo minority groupdada, sky/thunder god in Dawro
diiro, Manjo term for blessing
diggiyo, Manjo term for greeting
daguwa, big work party in Dawro
darazuri/bend, seventh and biggest flute of Kumpal’s fifi instrument
degella, (or degella), tanners in Ganta and Dawro
dejjo, rituals performed for spirits in Kafa
dere, small, territorially discrete and politically autonomous units in Gamo
dubio, Kafa-owned land after incorporation of Kafa into Ethiopian empire at end of 19th
century
dulla komo, Komo people’s war/campaign
duuro, Manjo term for simple
ejebel, term for blacksmiths in Rayya Qobbo area
ensete (ensete ventricosum), ‘false banana’, important root crop in Ethiopia
eqo, diviners of spirits in Kafa
etanta, dominant farming majority in Konso, also: edenta
fakis, Muslim scholars
fanno, patriots
faqi, term for tanners in Rayya Qobbo area
fifi, musical instrument and important ritual among the Kumpal, during which theycommemorate their oppression and rise of a generational curse
fuga, term for craftworkers/former hunters in Gurage, Kambatta and some other groups
fuld’o, traders (and craftworkers) association in Konso
gacha, forty hectares of land in Kafa
gafo, hamlets in Kafa kingdom
gasha halafi, administrative official of a village during Haile Selassie’s regime under themislene (district headman)gaydi, literally ‘oxen/cows’, derogative term used by slave masters for his slaves in Ganta
gedo ts’ossa, lineage god(s) in Dawro
geppe taatoo, ritual chief in Kafa
geyeda manjatuwa, literally ‘purified Manja’, used for Manja in Dawro who converted toProtestant Christianity
giidoona qoppho, Manjo term for giving instructions that are to be obeyed
goggiyo, Manjo term for comforting in times of mourning
gomaro, dominant farming majority in Kaffa

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guudo, provinces or clan territories within traditional Kaffa districts
gw əlt, land which was owned by the Amhara royal family and nobles
haco, Manjo term for cleverhadicho, craftworkers among the Sidama
hawd’a (or xauda, hauda), craftworkers in Konso
haallikko, deity of Gollango
haromaga, (also: maga), Haro ritual leader
hezthua, literally ‘third’, referring to proportion of sharing in animal sharing arrangement in Dawro
hit’itee, traditional breathing instrument made of bamboo of 1.2 to 2 meters length
played by the Dawro Manja during dominant farmers weddings and funerals
hoxaheete, non-appreciation and denial of respect by Kaffa towards Manjo minority
idir, burial association
injera, a flat, thin, soft kind of pancake made of t’eff
insanti, fifth flute of Kumpal’s fifi instrument
iqub, traditional savings association
jenub, (also: jenubi), expression used by Gwama people for early Anya-Nya ‘southern’rebel movement and to Sudan People’s Liberation Army/Movement (SPLA/M)
jerka, two shortest flutes of Kumpal’s fifi instrument, literal meaning ‘children’, referring
to children crying during Kumpal exodus
jerkasivtsa, second flute of Kumpal’s fifi instrument
kaaro, Manjo term for quarrellingk’adda s’alahiya, god of fortune in Dawrokafi noono, language of the Kaffa
kafi showo, Kaffa kingdom
kafi taatoo, Kaffa kingkatama, administrative towns in the southkati, hereditary king in Ganta
kawo, hereditary king in Gamo
kayo, Manjo term for playing, i.e. relaxing talkkefu menfes, evil spirits called upon by the zar cultkurela, literally ‘donkey’, derogative term used for female slaves in Rayya Qobbo area
kemo, Manjo term for prophesizing, telling past, present and futurekebele, smallest administrative unit under woreda (district)ketema rasho, chief councillor of Kaffa kingkillil, region
kotsa, arrangement of share-cropping and share-rearing of animals in Dawro
lathi, slave master in Ganta
lazantha, mediator in purification ritual for slave descendants in Ganta
madbet, Amhara royal family and nobles living in Kaffa after incorporation into Ethiopian Empire under Menelik II

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maga, assistant of ritual leader in Gamomaganencho, wife of woycha, assistant of Bayso ritual leader
mala, (or malla), free-born, dominant farming community among the Ganta, also inDawromana, craftworkers among the Ganta/Gamo highlands; also: specific term for potters
in Ganta and Dawro; also: specific term for potters and blacksmiths in Oyda, also:manna and manni among several Ometo groups
manna-chinasha, craftworkers among the Wolayta
manno, tanners among Kaffa
mando, Haro diviner/magician
Manja, marginalized group of former hunters living among Dawro
Manjo guudo, Manjo representative in Kaffa province in Kaffa kingdom, also: land
owned by the Manjo, which was forbidden for Kaffa people to enter
Manjo rasho, Manjo district heads in Kaffa kingdom
Manjo taatoo, Manjo king in Kaffa kingdom
mälkännya, administrative staff in Kaffa during Italian occupation
me’da ts’ossa, the god of creator in Dawro
mikkerecho, councillor of Kaffa kingmislene, district headman during the reign of Haile Selassie I
missa, literally ‘quarter’, referring to proportion of sharing in animal sharing arrangement in Dawromonuma, concepts of purity among Baysomooti, king/chief of western Oromonaggo, Manjo term for insulting
neftegna, (or näft’ännya), Abyssinian soldiers, conquerors in the south
oddobaddo, Bayso ritual experts responsible for women’s rituals
oriwonno, wife of wonno, Bayso ritual leader
ooniyo, Manjo term for gossiping
pente, a shortened and corrupted version of Pentecostal, and generic name for all Evangelical Christians in Ethiopia
qegn-azmatch, Ethiopian military title, also administrative position during the imperial
government; intermediary between the state and the local communities
qolle, ancestral spirits invoked during zar cultqeshaheete, exclusion of Manjo minority from Kaffa majority group justified by the Manjo’s alleged impurity
qollo, Manjo term for begging/praying, also Kaffa term for spirits
qocho, staple food made from ensete in Kaffa
rist, oldest and most common form of land tenure in northern Ethiopia
sambata, god of holiday in Dawro

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saraqa, third flute of Kumpal’s fifi instrumentsassa ts’ossa, powerful god or fast spirit in Dawroshankilla, derogative term used in the past for indigenous ‘black’ population from thesouth, southwest and western Ethiopia
shenecha, religious ritual of benediction and prayer performed by men in the Rayya
Qobbo highlands
sherechwa, ritual or spiritual leader in Dawroshuniyo, Manjo term for reconcilings’illo ts’ossa, righteous god in Dawrosit shwala, literally ‘black people’, term of self-reference by Koman Mao living in Oromia
songonn, Bayso public meeting placesumomaydo, assistant of haromaga, Haro ritual leader
swal Gwama, literally ‘the house of the Gwama’, Mao ritual placetaggo, Manjo term for debating in a reconciliation process in the presence of a mediatorteleq sawach, elders, also powerful people and nobles
teyb, term for occupational groups (craftworkers) in Rayya Qobbo area
tocho tochahe, literally ‘telling tocho stories’, Manjo expression for story telling situations
toola fuld’o, literally ‘fuld’o family’, traders (and craftworkers) association in Konso
ts’alahen, Bayso spirit, delegate of Waa (Bayso highest spiritual being)tsoma, non-citizens in Gamo, also craftworkers
tsosi’indo, wife of haromaga, Haro ritual leader, and wife of sumomaydo, assistant ofHaro ritual leader
tumtu, term for weavers, potters, smiths, tailors, tanners in Wollega
tune, Bayso concept of impurity
tuna, Dawro concept of impurity
uppo, Manjo term for cursing
Waa, Bayso highest spiritual being
watawit, noble class dominating frontier region between Sudan and Ethiopia, controlling large parts of the indigenous population, including the Berta, Gwama
and Komo
welaga, tree found in Rayya Qobbo highlands, representing slaves during shenecha ritual
weyera, plant (olea europaea subsp Africana) found in Rayya Qobbo highlands, representing nobles during shenecha ritual
wogache, blacksmiths in Dawro
wonno, Bayso ritual leader
wonto, Haro higher spiritual being
worafo, traditional districts of Kaffa kingdom
woreda, district
woreda gaži, director general of district in Kaffa during Italian occupation
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wozzo, purification ritual for slave descendants in Ganta
wude, reciprocal cattle herding group in Ganta
xisanti, sixth flute of Kumpal’s fifi instrument
xuggo, smallest administrative unit in Kaffa kingdom
yaaddo, Manjo term for bidding defianceyeero, Kaffa and Manjo god
zamacha, ‘development through cooperation campaign’ under the Derg, during whichyoung people were sent to the countryside to teach local communities about modernization
zar, spirit possession cult widely spread in the Horn of Africa and some countries in the
Middle Eastzawiy, small work party in Dawro

L I ST OF CONTR I BUTORSHERM ANN A M BORN is Professor Emeritus of Social Anthropology at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Munich. He was trained asa welding engineer and received his diploma in 1964 before going on to complete a
PhD in Social Anthropology in 1973 and his habilitation in 1987. He lectured in Munich, Hamburg, Berlin, Tübingen and Manhatten (Kansas). For several years, he was the
spokesman for the working group on ethics of the German Anthropological Association(DGV). Since 1973, his research has focussed on Ethiopia, Kenya and Indonesia and his
publications relate to socio-economics (crafts, agriculture, division of work), socio-religion, polycephalous societies, action research, ethics, identity, oral tradition, conflict
solving, law and anarchy.
BOSH A BOM BE has a BA in History and an MA in Social Anthropology from Bahir
Dar University and Addis Ababa University, respectively. He did intensive fieldwork
among the Ganta people in the Gamo Highlands and the Alle people in southwestern
Ethiopia. From 2014 to 2016 he was research associate and since September 2016, he has
been working as a lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology at
Arbaminch University. His research interests focus on: social exclusion and integration,
historical and contemporary slavery, marriage and family, ethnic identity, boundaries
and citizenship, and labour migration.
FA BIENNE BR AUK M ANN received her MA degree in Social Anthropology fromthe University of Cologne, Germany. Since 2010, her regional focus has been on southern Ethiopia, where she has conducted extensive fieldwork among the Haro of Lake
Abbaya. She is currently a PhD candidate in Social Anthropology at the University of
Cologne and researcher at the Asia-Africa-Institute, University Hamburg, working forthe DoBeS-project on the endangered languages and cultures of Bayso and Haro. Her
research interests include culture and language documentation, hunters and gatherers, minority groups, marginalization, culture and environmental adaptation, culturechange and forgetting and remembering.
DESA LEGN A MSA LU has an MA in Cultural Studies and a PhD in Social Anthropology from Addis Ababa University. He was a lecturer at Addis Ababa University from2008–2016 and has been Assistant Professor of Social Anthropology at the Institute of276

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Ethiopian Studies, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia, since 2016. From 2009 on, he has
undertaken several periods of fieldwork in northwestern and central Ethiopia, working
among different Agaw communities and among Amhara, Gumuz, and Oromo. He isinterested in: ethnicity and ethnic identity, collective memory, social marginalization, as
well as the implementation of Ethiopian federalism at the local level.
SUSA NNE EPPLE has MA and PhD degrees in Social Anthropology from Mainz
University. She has done extensive fieldwork on age and gender relations in southern
Ethiopia, working among the Bashada since 1994 and the Bayso since 2012. From 2007
to 2015 she was assistant professor at the Department of Social Anthropology, Addis
Ababa University in Ethiopia. She is currently a researcher at the Frobenius Institute inFrankfurt, Germany, and research affiliate at Arbaminch University, Ethiopia, working
on marginalized groups and legal pluralism in southern Ethiopia. Her interests lie in theareas of gender and age in pastoral societies, social discourse and identity, hereditary
status groups, cultural and legal pluralism and human rights.
Dena F r eem an holds a PhD in Social Anthropology from the London Schoolof Economics and Political Science (LSE). She has taught Anthropology at various universities including Cambridge, UCL and the LSE. She has done extensive fieldworkin Ethiopia over the last 20 years, looking at the dynamics of cultural transformationin the Gamo Highlands and exploring issues of happiness, wellbeing, development,
markets and moralities, and religious change. She is the author or editor of three books– Initiating Change in Highland Ethiopia: Causes and Consequences of Cultural Transformation (2002), Peripheral People: The Excluded Minorities of Ethiopia (2003, with Alula
Pankhurst), and Pentecostalism and Development: Churches, NGOs and Social Change in
Africa (2012). She is currently a Senior Visiting Fellow in the department of Anthropology at the LSE.
K I YA GEZA HEGNE has an MA degree in Social Anthropology from Addis Ababa
University. She has done ethnographic fieldwork in different parts of Ethiopia (mainlyin Amhara, Oromia, Benishangul-Gumuz, and Afar) and the Sudan (Khartoum andalong the Ethiopia–Sudan border). Her research interests include gender, migration,
religion, identity, conflict resolution, and development. Currently, she is a lecturer at
the Department of Social Anthropology, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia. She is alsoa PhD candidate in the NORHED project on borderland studies, doing research on
religious identity among migrants along the Ethiopia–Sudan border.
EIK E H A BERLAND (†) was a German anthropologist with a great interest in Ethiopia throughout his life. As a researcher at the Frobenius Institute in Frankfurt he didintensive fielwork in southern Ethiopia and he is known for his numerous books andarticles, mostly on ethno-history, but also on the special role of craftworkers, hunters,

l i s t o f c o n t r ib u t o r s277slaves, and sacred kingdoms. In 1965 he became Professor at the Department of Anthropology and African Studies at the University of Mainz, and returned to Frankfurt
only three years later to become Professor at the Department of Historial Anthropology
at Frankfurt University. He was also the director of the Frobenius Institute in Frankfurt
until his death in 1992.
K I RSI LEIKOLA has an MA and PhD (Linguistic Anthropology) from the Department of World Cultures, African Studies at the University of Helsinki (in affiliation with
Addis Ababa University, Department of Linguistics). Both her MA and PhD research
dealt with relationship between the Manjo minority and the majority of Kaffa farmers. She has been working in Ethiopia since 1992, serving the Ethiopian Evangelical
Church Mekane Yesus (EECMY). Currently, she works as an advisor for the development projects in Kaffa and for the EECMY Central Office’s program on inclusion of
the marginalized minorities. Her fields of interest are the process of marginalization andthe roles of linguistic practices in creating and crossing social boundaries and identity
construction.
A LEX ANDER MECK ELBURG is an independent researcher and consultant inNairobi. He holds an MA degree in Ethiopian Studies from the University of Hamburg
and has recently (3/2017) defended his PhD dissertation. He was an editorial assistantfor the Encyclopaedia Aethiopica (2009-2014) and a research fellow at the Hiob Ludolf
Centre for Ethiopian Studies (2014-2016) at the University of Hamburg. He carried out
research on inter-ethnic relations in Gambella (since 2005) and on the political integration and ethno-history of the Mao and Komo minorities in western Ethiopia (since2010).
SA MUEL T IBEBE obtained his BEd degree in History from Bahir Dar University
in 2004 and his MA and PhD in Social Anthropology from Addis Ababa University in2007 and 2016, respectively. He has done fieldwork among the Dawro, southern Ethiopia, since 2011. Since 2016, he is a researcher with the rank of assistant professor in theSocial and Cultural Studies Center at the Academy of Ethiopian Languages and Cultures, Addis Ababa University. His areas of interest are: traditional belief systems, religious conversion, marginalized groups, cultural change, education, and social structure.
GR A ZI ANO SAVÀ specializes in the description and documentation of the minority
and endangered languages of Ethiopia. After his MA at L’Orientale University in Naples, Italy, he obtained his PhD in African Languages and Culture at Leiden University,
the Netherlands. Since 1996, he has done extensive linguistic fieldwork in southwest
Ethiopia among the Gurage, the Ts’amakko, the Ongota, the Hamar, the Bayso and theHaro, and obtained postdoc fellowships from the Endangered Languages Documentation Programme and the DoBeS project for endangered languages. From 2008 to 2010

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he was an associate professor in language documentation at the Linguistics Departmentof Addis Ababa University. Presently, he is a postdoc researcher at L’Orientale University, working towards the creation of a dictionary and a grammatical sketch of the Nara
language of Eritrea.
SAYUR I YOSHIDA has an MA degree in Cultural Anthropology from Nanzan
University and PhD degree in Cultural Anthropology from Nagoya University, Japan.
She was a Designated Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at the Institute forAdvanced Research, Nagoya University from 2014 to 2017 and is presently Associate
Professor at the Department of Global Liberal Studies, Nanzan University. Since 2004,
she has been conducting extensive fieldwork for her MA and PhD theses on the Kaffa
and the Manjo people in the Kaffa zone of southwest Ethiopia. Her focus of interest
lies in how people regard and represent their own history and culture, and how such
representations influence their historical views and identity today. Yoshida’s work andpublications were rewarded with the 20th Takashima Prize of Japan Association for Nilo-Ethiopian Studies and the 27th Young Researcher’s Award of Japan Association for
African Studies.

INDEX OF PERSONSThis index lists all personal names of authors and historic personalities mentioned in
the chapters of the publication according to the spelling used by the respective authors.
Alternative ways of spelling are mentioned only in so far as they appear in the publication.
Aalen, Lovise 12, 21, 25, 35, 37f, 43, 46, 70, 78,
175, 190
Abba Qasto, nominal Kafa king during Italianoccupation 202f
Abbink, Jon 173–175, 190
Abdussammad H. Ahmad 158, 169f, 178–180,
190
Ahmed Gragn, (real name: Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi), Muslim conqueror of
Abyssinia during Abyssinian-Adal war(1529–1543) 159f
Akalework Mengesha 35, 46
Alemante G. Selassie 149, 154
Alemneh Dejene 208, 214
Allport, Gordon W. 193, 214
Amborn, Herrmann 14f, 22f, 25, 35, 40f, 46,
121–126, 128–130, 133, 135f, 139, 154,
221, 236, 255
Aneesa Kassam 19, 25, 43, 46, 238
Arthur, John W. 67, 78
Aspen, Harald 63, 168, 170, 217
Atieb Ahmad Dafalla 178, 190
Avanchers, Léon des 198, 214
Bakhtin, Mikhail 228, 236
Balsvik, Randi Rønning 174, 190
Bashuna, Ali Balla 19, 25, 43, 46, 222, 238
Battaglia, R. 245, 247, 262
Baumann, Gerd 178, 191
Baumann, Hermann 241, 244, 256, 262

Baumann, Oskar 262
Bayleyegn Tasew 51, 61
Behailu Abebe 50f, 53, 61, 194, 214
Bekele Woldemariam 63, 217, 219, 236
Belete Dawit 40, 42, 46
Bender, Marvin Lionel 176, 190, 226, 236
Bere, maga (ritual assistant of local king) in
Ganta Meyche and the first to renounce
the exclusion of slave descendants fromdeath rites 72
Berhanu Bibiso 39, 46, 52, 56f, 61
Betz, Werner 104, 118
Bianchi, Gustavo 249, 254, 262
Biasutti, Renato 139, 244, 248, 262
Bieber, Friedrich Julius 195, 197f, 214, 221,
237, 247, 249, 251, 255, 262
Bosha Bombe 20–23, 26, 35, 39, 41, 43, 46,
65–68, 75f, 78, 157, 170, 219
Bourdieu, Pierre 223, 237
Braukämper, Ulrich 20, 26, 35, 46
Braukmann, Fabienne 7, 12, 22f, 41f, 79f, 84,
92, 99, 101f, 118, 275
Briggs, Charles L. 224, 237
Brøgger, Jan 225, 237
Bucholtz, Mary 223, 237
Cecchi, Antonio 247, 249, 251, 254, 258, 262
Central statistical agency (CSA) 49f, 207, 216
Cerulli, Enrico 139, 154, 195, 197–199, 214,
237, 243f, 246–248, 252–256, 258, 262

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Cerulli, Ernesta 86, 99
Chumburo Assefa, one of the last Bayso ritualleaders 85
Clarke, John 175, 190
Cohen, Marcel 17, 26, 242, 262
Coll, Kathleen 190
Conti Rossini, Carlo 256, 263
Coupland, Nikolas 223, 237, 239
Cowley, Roger 141f, 154
Czekanowski, Jan 247, 263
Dagmawie Mengistu 221, 237
Dagnino Evelina 190
Daminas, one of two Kumpal ancestors whocursed them 148–150
Data Dea 37, 46, 61f, 99, 214
De Sisto, Federica 221, 237
Dereje Feyissa 39, 47, 52, 62, 181, 190
Desalegn Amsalu 19, 21f, 24, 44, 139–144,
148f, 151, 154, 156
Dieterlen, G. 123, 135
DoBes Archive 86, 99, 101, 275, 277
Dohrmann, Alke 133, 135
Dubale Gebeyehu 51f, 62
De Waal, Alexander 181, 190
Donaldson Smith, Arthur 248f, 263
Donham, Donald 36, 47, 127, 135, 148, 185,
190
Douglas, Mary 190, 194, 215
Drake-Brockman, Ralph Evelyn 257, 263
Dumont, Louis 14, 26, 194, 215

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Fernyhough, Deyek 157f, 170
Freeman, Dena 7, 9, 12, 26, 28, 33, 35–39, 42,
45–48, 52, 56, 61–63, 66, 69f, 74, 78, 83,
99, 133, 135, 155f, 183f, 214–216, 221f,
233, 237–240
Fujimoto, Takeshi 52, 62
Gakki Sherochi, last king of Kafa 200
Gamst, Frederick 82, 99
Gemeda Hunde Wordoffa 26, 47
Getachew Fulle 222, 238
Getaneh Haile Shoddo 195, 215
Gezahegn Petros 62, 215, 238
Giddens, Anthony 133, 135
Girma Wolde-Giyorgis, second president ofEthiopia from 2001 to 2013 211
González-Ruibal, Alfredo 176, 183–185, 189f
Gordon, Matthew 227, 239
Gordon, Rymond, Jr. 140, 142
Granovetter, Mark 227, 238
Griaule, Marcel 123, 135, 247, 249f, 263
Guluma Gemeda 157, 169
Gumperz, John 104, 119, 227, 238
Gusinde, Martin 256, 263

Haberland, Eike 9, 20–22, 25, 27, 35, 47, 82,
84, 93, 99f, 122, 135, 157, 170, 221, 238,
241–243, 246–252, 254f, 257–259, 263,
276
Habtamu Wondimu 147, 155
Hagmann, Tobias 12, 25, 29, 37, 46, 48, 99
Hahonou, Éric Komlavi 188, 191
Eckert, Penelope 223, 227f, 237
Haile Selassie, last Ethiopian Emperor 33, 35,
Edwards, Jon 157, 163, 169f
40, 68f, 77, 89f, 92, 146, 149, 162, 165,
Eller, Jack 49
174, 180f, 190, 207
Ellison, James 26, 40, 47, 130, 135
Hallpike, Christopher, R. 20, 27
Endashaw Woldemichael 102, 118
Hall, Kira 223, 237
Eno, Mohammed A. 222
Hamer, John 221, 225, 238
Eno, Omar A. 222
Harris, William Cornwallis, Sir 251, 254, 257f,
Epple, Susanne 11f, 22f, 26, 33, 39–42, 44–46,
263
78–80, 82, 84, 86, 88, 95f, 99–102, 118,
Hartmann, Ingrid 205, 215
170
Hayward, Richard 102, 119
Haywood, Captain C. Wightwick 249, 263
FDRE (Federal Democratic Republic of Ethi- Heller, Monika 223, 238opia) 62, 143, 154, 166, 170, 174f, 190,
Herbert, Eugenia W. 123, 135
209, 215
Herbst, Jeffrey 185, 191index of per sonsHill, Polly 163, 165, 169f
Hirut Wolde-Mariam 102, 119
Höhne, Markus Virgil 19, 27, 43
Huntingford, George Wynn Brereton 20, 27,
82, 100, 199–201, 215, 221, 238, 247, 254,
263
Hussein Ahmed 159, 170

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Leikola, Kirsi 12, 18, 22, 25, 42, 219, 221, 226f,
230, 232, 234, 239, 277
Lemi Kebebew 102, 119
Leslau, Wolf 242, 247, 254, 264
Levine, Donald Neville 86, 100, 121, 131, 136,
155
Lewis, Herbert 139f, 155
Lewis, Ioan Myrddin 244, 264
Ilfes, one of two Kumpal ancestors who cursed Luchsinger, J. R. 249, 264
them 148, 150
Ishihara Minako 200, 215
Maltzan, Heinrich von 261, 264
Mamdani, Mahmood 185, 191
James, Wendy 135f, 176–179, 190f
Mannheim, Bruce 226, 240
Jensen, Adolf Ellegard 20, 27, 100, 120, 122,
Markakis, John 180, 191
131, 135, 139, 155, 238, 245–249, 251f,
Martin-Jones, Marilyn 223, 238
255–258, 263f
Massaja, Ara Gugilielmo 139, 155, 195, 197,
Jote Tullu, king/chief of western Oromo in late
215
19th century, involved in slave trade 178f Masuda, Ken 208, 215
Meckelburg, Alexander 21f, 24, 35, 38, 44, 48,
Kandt, Richard 256, 263
68, 78, 157, 171, 173, 182, 187, 191
Kansite Gellebo 40, 47
Memmi, Albert 193, 215
Kati Alemayehu, local king of Ganta appoint- Mendoza-Denton, Norma 223, 239
ed by Haile Selassie as qegn-azmatch in
Menelik II, Ethiopian Emperor 35, 41, 87,
1930 69
121f, 127, 179, 261, 271
Kawase, Itsushi 21, 27
Menen Asfaw, Empress and wife of Emperor
Keller, Conrad 254, 264
Haile Selassie I 33
Kellner, Alexander 130, 136
Mengesha Retie 160, 171
Kibrom Assefa 159, 161, 170
Mengistu Haile Mariam, chairman of the Derg
Kirk, John William Carnegie 254, 257, 264
and head of state of Ethiopia 35
Kiya Gezahegne 21, 24, 38f, 43, 157, 162, 170, Mengistu Seyoum 216, 239
276
Merker, Moritz 242, 247, 252f, 256, 264
Knutsson, Karl 146, 155
Mesfin Mesele 51, 61
Kochito Wolde Michael 198, 200f, 215
Meyer, Hans 256, 264
Koehler, Oswin 245, 264
Milroy, Lesley 227, 239
Kohl-Larsen, Ludwig 242, 264
Miyawaki Yukio 194, 216
Krause, Arthur 261, 264
Mizzi, P. A. 247, 251f, 254, 264
Kroskrity, Paul V. 225, 239
Moore-Harell, Alice 157, 171
Kush Kush, contemporary Gwama pop-singMuhammad-al-Hassan, former ruler of
er 186
Fadasi (in present day Benishangul-GuKüspert, Klaus-Christian 176, 191muz) 188
Kuyo Fuld’o, founder of the Konso association Mulugeta Aggo 195, 216(fuld’o) for traders and craftworkers 129 Mulugeta Bezabih 51, 63
Mummendey, Amélie 193, 216
Lange, Werner Jürgen 20, 28, 124, 195,
Myers-Scotton, Carol 231, 239
197–199, 207, 215, 219, 221, 239
Naty, Alexander 57, 60, 62

282Nahu Senay 155
Nelson, Todd D. 193, 216
Neuville, H. 249, 264
Neveu, Catherine 190
Olmstead, Judith 66, 68, 78
Orent, Amnon 195, 197f, 200–204, 216, 221,
239
Pankhurst, Alula 9, 12, 14f, 21, 26, 28, 33,
35–38, 42, 45–48, 61f, 83, 99, 133, 135,
139f, 140, 155f, 183f, 190, 207, 214–216,
221f, 237–240, 261, 276
Paulos Daaffa 191
Piccaia, Matteo 255, 264
Piot, Charles 233, 239
Prins, Adriaan Hendrik Johan 244f, 248f, 264
Robecchi-Bricchetti, Luigi 248, 354, 257, 264
Rueppel, Eduard 265
Quirin, James 20, 28, 139, 155
Ras Wolde Giyorgis, one of Emperor Menelik’s leading generals, who led several
campaigns in the south at the end of the
19th century 200f
Rickford, John R. 228, 237
Robbins, Joel 49, 62
Rashed, Mohammad 180, 191
Rosaldo, Renato 175, 191

Annexes

Sheikh Khojale al-Hassan, local ruler in Bela-Shangul in late 19th century 178f, 190
Simoons, Frederick 139f, 155
Smidt, Wolbert 35, 48, 68, 78
Solleillet, Paul 249, 265
Spaulding, Jay 178, 191
Stigand, Captain C. H. 242, 354, 257, 265
Storch, Anne 223, 240
Straube, Helmut 20, 27, 29, 100, 123, 135, 238,
247, 255f, 265
Streck, Bernhard 125, 136
Strecker, Ivo 27, 135, 223, 240
Sutton, John E.G. 122, 136
Tadesse Wolde 136
Taddesse Berisso 216
Taddesse Tamrat 155
Takele Merid 155
Teclehaimanot Gebreselassie 20, 29, 82, 100
Tedlock, Dennis 226, 240
Tellez, F. Balthasar 242, 265
Tesfaye Tafesse 150, 156
Teshale Tibebu 171
Theis, Joachim 177, 191
Thiene, Gaettano da 254, 265
Tibebe Eshete 63
Todd, David 14, 29, 139, 156, 221, 240
Tosco, Mauro 102, 119
Treis, Yvonne 222, 240
Trimingham, John Spencer 131, 136, 139, 156,
161
Triulzi, Alessandro 178, 191
Tronvoll, Kjetil 25, 29, 37, 46, 48, 99
Ts’adiku Checheho 63
Turton, David 149, 156, 174, 192
Tutschek, Karl 254, 265
Tyler, Stephen 223, 240

Salkeld, R. E. 254, 265
Samuel Tibebe 22, 49, 277
Sato Ren’ya 216
Savà, Graziano 22f, 41f, 90, 94, 101f, 119, 277
Schilling-Estes, Natalie 223, 228, 239
Schurtz, Heinrich 131, 136
Schuver, Juan Maria, Dutch traveller who visited and described the Amam and Koma Vaughan, Sarah 29, 37f, 48
groups who lived along the Ethiopia–Su- Van der Beken, Christophe 175, 192
dan border in 1880s 178f, 191
Van Halteren, Bart 195, 216
Seid Ahmed 62
Seyoum Mesfin 155
Watson, Elizabeth E. 43, 48, 135
Shack, William 20, 29, 82, 100, 139, 155, 221, Wenger, Etienne 231, 240
225, 240
Wenzel, Michael 193, 216
Werner, Alice 247, 249, 254, 265

index of per sonsWidgren, Mats 122, 136
Wolde-Selassie Abbute 41, 48, 56, 63, 156, 222
Wondimu Lemma 63
Woodburn, James 194, 216
Wright, A. C. A. 254, 266
Yasin Mohammed 179, 192
Yikuno Amlak, Emperor of Ethiopia(1270–1285) 142
Yitbarek (also called King Ilmekun), last Agaw
ruler 142
Yohannes IV, (also known as King John), Ethiopian Emperor (1871–1889) 160
Yohannes Yitbarek 156
Yonas Abate Shibeshi 217
Yoshida, Sayuri 18, 22, 24, 29, 36, 38, 40f, 48,
54, 56, 63, 79, 83, 100, 193, 195f, 199,
204, 206, 211f, 216f, 231, 234, 240, 278
Young, John 181, 192

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