Book
Mao
Missione etnografica nel Uollega occidentale • 1 • Published In 1940 • Pages: 397 , plates
By: Grottanelli, Vinigi L..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This work traces the division of the Mao people into linguistically and geographically distinct "Northern" and "Southern" communities to the first decades of the fourteenth century, when a group of Sidama immigrants established themselves as ethnically superior chiefs and lineages over the previously egalitarian Mao people. In response to this conquest, some Mao fled to the north where they continued to live in more egalitarian village communities. Over the years, Northern and Southern Mao evolved into two linguistically different and politically contrasting groups. Beginning in the second half of the sixteenth century, a large number of Oromo migrants settled along the valley region that separates the Northern and Southern Mao, further reinforcing the schism. A significant part of the text is devoted to reconstructing the cultural history of different Mao groups, as they migrated and interacted with people of other ethnic, linguistic, religious, and politico-economic backgrounds.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Identification
- Location
- Settlement patterns
- Community structure
- Inter-community relations
- Ethnic stratification
- Status, role, and prestige
- Form and rules of government
- Linguistic identification
- Inter-ethnic relations
- Internal migration
- External migration
- Historical reconstruction
- Hunting and trapping
- Tillage
- Acculturation and culture contact
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Mao
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2019
- 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
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Anthropologist
- 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
- Teferi Abate Adem; 2018; Rachela Pierro; 2018
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1939
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1939-1940
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- western Oromia and southwestern Benishangul-Gumuz regions, Ethiopia
- NotesAdditional notes
- Vinigi L. Grottanelli
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 45032610
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Ethnology--Ethiopia