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