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The Shoan Plateau and its people: an essay in local geography
Geographical journal • 114 • Published In 1949 • Pages: 157-172
By: Buxton, D. R..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
As the title suggests, this article deals primarily with the geography of a limited area: in this case, a region about ten by eleven miles around the city of Debra Berhan, an important market town and district headquarters eighty miles northeast of Addis Ababa. The author describes in detail the geography of the region, and gives additional information on settlement patterns, agriculture and irrigation, the local market, and a description of several churches. Of particular interest is an original map of the area which shows in detail topography, routes, settlements and other aspects discussed in the text.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Topography and geology
- History
- Water supply
- Religious and educational structures
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Amhara
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1998
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Africa
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Eastern Africa
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Educator
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- George R. Bedell ; 1959
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1946-1948
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1500-1948
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Ethiopia
- NotesAdditional notes
- D. R. Buxton
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 28017564
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Amhara (African people)