Gurage Notes
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7551837 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Edward Ullendorff (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1950 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 335-344 |
| Publication date | 1950-10-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Africa (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0001-9720 • E-ISSN: 1750-0184 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1156450 |
| OpenAlex | W4237267982 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 1 |
Opening Paragraph The existence of the country and people of the Gurage in Ethiopia has long been known in Europe from the writings of the Portuguese in the sixteenth century. A few references to the Gurage may also be found in Ludolf's Historia Aethiopica (1681), and Bruce's Travels (vol. iv, pp. 147 et seq.) contain some amusing accounts of Gurage activities. Bruce thought they were ‘troglodytes and all robbers; their constant occupation is attending the Abyssinian camps, and stealing horses, mules, or whatever they can get, which they do in a very singular manner’. He then describes such a Gurage robbery in some detail and remarks that when the culprit was finally apprehended, he was found to speak ‘the Amharic language as well as his own, contrary to what the villain had all along pretended
Amharic · Ancient history · Ethnology · Genealogy · Geography · Linguistics · Paragraph · Political science · Portuguese · Sociology · African history and culture analysis · Anthropology · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History · Law · Philosophy
The western Maghrib and Sudan
The East African interior
The East Coast, Madagascar and the Indian Ocean
Upper and Lower Guinea
Central Africa from Cameroun to the Zambezi
The eastern Maghrib and the central Sudan
Cultural, economic, and symbolic value of the enset crop in Sebat-Bet Guraghe, Southwest Ethiopia
The Cambridge History of Africa
| Citations per year | 0.16 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1977 - 2022 (46) |
| Highly cited | No |