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A Galla Monarchy: Jimma Abba Jifar, Ethiopia, 1830–1932. H erbert S. L ewis

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ID7179065
AuthorsEike Haberland (University of Maine, corresponding author)
Year1967
Volume69
Issue1
Pages124-126
Publication date1967-02-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Anthropologist (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0002-7294 • E-ISSN: 1548-1433
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1525/aa.1967.69.1.02a00650
OpenAlexW2162580417
LanguageEN

of modern Nigeria.She details their activities in a number of spheres-missionary, commercial, and political-and, in so doing, stresses the diversity of their interests and goals.But in Lagos (and probably in Abeokuta too, though to a lesser extent) the 'iSaro" formed an almost closed community, with quite a distinct style of life and perpetuating itself by intermamage.We are told of Mr. Blaize, a prominent Lagos trader who lihas a landau and a pair of greys with which he drives out occasionallyfootman and coachman on the box"; but, unfortunately, no vivid picture of "Saro" society in these distant hut important decades emerges from these pages.Ilistoire d n Niger

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