Essays in Northeast African studies
By: edited by Shun Sato, Eisei Kurimoto
Series: Senri ethnological studies -- no. 43
Publisher: National Museum of Ethnology
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Osaka, Japan
Language: eng
Number of pages: 354
Subjects: Ethnology; Civilization; Ethnic relations; Social conditions; Economic conditions
Notes: "This volume ... is an outcome of 'Empirical Studies on Ethno-systems in Northeast AFrica,' a joint study program of the National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka (Kurimoto 1994)"--Pref.

Includes bibliographical references.

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Table of contents: title: Riverbank cultivation in the Lower Omo Valley : the intensive farming system of the Kara, Southwestern Ethiopia  -- Hiroshi Matsuda; title: People of the river : subsistence economy of the Anywaa (Anuak) of Western Ethiopia  -- Eisei Kurimoto; title: Water, land and labor in irrigation agriculture along the Nile : cases from the Northern Sudan  -- Kazuo Ohtsuka; title: Cultivation strategy and historical change of sorghum varieties in the Hoor of Southwestern Ethiopia  -- Yukio Miyawaki; title: Rainbow-like hierarchy : Dizi social organization  -- Akira Deguchi; title: Multilingualism in Koegu : interethnic relationships and language  -- Osamu Hieda; title: On the consonant correspondences of South Omotic languages  -- Yoichi Tsuge; title: Where does the wadi come from? : the cognitive space of the Sinaitic bedouin -- Tetsuo Nishio.; title: Textual analysis of a poetic verse in a Muslim Oromo society in Jimma Area, Southwestern Ethiopia  -- Minako Ishihara; title: The monasteries of the Blue Nile : the circular world of Africa  -- Takao Yamagata; title: The philosophy of the margin or the space which cannot be utilized : structuralist analysis of Mandari myths  -- Akira Deguchi; title: The commercial herding system among the Garri  -- Shun Sato; title: Indian immigrants and the East African slave trade  -- Chizuko Tominaga; title: Some problems on the formation of the Swahili world and the Indian Ocean maritime world -- Hikoichi Yajima.