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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 the generations, the nobility kept their estates intact th...