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Family and property amongst the Amhara nobilityarticle 1983 • Crummey, Donald
Amhara • Africa > Eastern Africa
This work is a historical study of family succession among the Amhara nobility of Abyssinia. Practicing ambilineal descent and partible inheritance, both which tend to dissipate wealth across ...