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Ethiopian Dynastic Marriage and the Bétä Esra'él

Aethiopica, 2013
Significant contacts between the Ethiopian State and the Bétä Esraʾél began in the late sixteenth century with the move of the imperial capital to the Lake Ṭana area, which was relatively near to Fälaša settlements in or around the Sämén mountains.
Richard Pankhurst
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Desegregationist Pan‐African Spiritual Strivings: Du Bois, the Black Church and the Critique of Imperialism*

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article argues that W. E. B. Du Bois grounded his seminal conceptualisation of “the Negro church” in a Pan‐Africanist challenge to how Christian reformers and missionaries' usage of “Darkest Africa” as a metaphor for modern urban vice and poverty denigrated Africa and the African diaspora while promoting a segregated, imperialist version ...
Kai Parker
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Between Heretics and Jews: Inventing Jewish Identities in Ethiopia

Entangled Religions - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Religious Contact and Transfer, 2018
The Beta Israel, the Ethiopian Jews, have suffered from a negative or complete misrepresentation in the written and oral sources of pre-modern Ethiopia.
Sophia Dege-Müller
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The Gender of Fossil Fuels: Oil and Domestic Perils in Mandate Palestine

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores the gender dynamics behind the rise of kerosene – an oil derivative – as the main domestic fuel in Mandate Palestine. It argues that these dynamics were constitutive in determining who began to use oil, where and for what purposes, in turn demonstrating that women in Palestine were the promoters and targets of a campaign ...
Shira Pinhas
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Profiles of Ethiopian centenarians: A qualitative inquiry

Anthropology & Aging, 2021
As global aging advances, the number of centenarians worldwide is greatly increasing.   Most of what is known about centenarians comes the Global North.
Samson Chane, Margaret E. Adamek
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ORCHESTRATING DIFFERENCE AND SIMILARITY: Black Fungibility, and the Spatial Redrawing of Racial Categories in Spanish Colonial Morocco, Sahara and Guinea

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article I dissect the spatial strategies through which the Spanish attempted to orchestrate both racial difference and similarity in the African colonies of Morocco, Western Sahara and Equatorial Guinea during the first half of the twentieth century.
Pol Fité Matamoros
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Creating modern Ethiopian historiography (Ethiopian sources from the early 20th Century)

Studies in African Languages and Cultures, 2007
Researchers interested in the history of Africa perceive Ethiopia as such a culturally different area, they exclude it from their fields of interest. Moreover, both the beginning and the development of Ethiopian studies was derived from and used to be ...
Hanna Rubinkowska
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Ethnographies of Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity: Sacred Histories, Changing Identities, and the Politics of Religious Pluralism [PDF]

, 2022
Diego Maria Malara
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Regional perspectives: Substance use related problems in Ethiopia

Addiction, EarlyView.
Abstract Ethiopia, with a population exceeding 130 million, presents a complex landscape for understanding substance use disorders. The country's diverse cultural heritage, varying regional practices, and evolving socioeconomic conditions create unique factors of substance use that differ markedly from global trends.
Tesfa M. Yimer, Wubalem Fekadu, Janni Leung, Awoke Mihretu, Solomon Teferra   +4 more
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Covenant Refractions in Everyday Devotion

African Christian Theology
A book review essay of The Covenant’s Veil:   Ethiopian Orthodox Tradition of Elaboration, by Alexandra Sellassie Antohin, Orthodox Christianity and Contemporary Thought (New York:   Fordham University Press, 2025).
Nebeyou A. TEREFE
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