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