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Land tenure among the Amhara of EthiopiaBook 1973 • Hoben, Allan.
Amhara • Africa > Eastern Africa
This is a study of the relationship among descent, status and land rights in the Amhara land-tenure system. All Amhara have a right to cultivate a piece of land through their membership in a cognatic descent group whose apical ancestor was the area's...The role of ambilineal descent groups in Gojjam Amhara social organizationBook 1963 • Hoben, Allan.
Amhara • Africa > Eastern Africa
The ambilineal descent group in rural Amhara society serves an important role in allocating land rights within a feudal-like tenure system. Land grants originally given to military and religious personal have since been passed down to descendants. Ea...Social stratification in traditional Amhara societyessay 1970 • Hoben, Allan
Amhara • Africa > Eastern Africa
This is a reconstruction of traditional Amhara sociopolitical organization, before 1896. Hoben's intent is to contrast Amhara society with that of feudal Europe with which it has been closely identified in the literature. He depicts traditional Amhar...