The southern marches of imperial Ethiopia essays in history and social anthropology

I THE MAKING OF AN IMPERIAL STATE Old Abyssinia & the new Ethiopian empire: themes in social history by Donald Donham - II RENEGOTIATING POWER & AUTHORITY Nekemte & Addis Ababa: dilemmas of provincial rule by Alessandro Triulzi - From ritual kings to Ethiopian landlords in Maale by Donald Donham - Institutionalizing a fringe periphery: Dassanetch-Amhara relations by Uri Almagor III REORIENTING KINSHIP & IDENTITY Lifelines: exchange marriage among the Gumuz by Wendy James - A problem of domination at the periphery: the Kwegu & the Mursi by David Turton IV EXPANDING TRIBUTE & TRADE Coffee in centre-periphery relations: Gedeo in the early 20th century by Charles W. McClellan - Vicious cycles: ivory, slaves & arms on the new Maji frontier by Peter P. Garretson - On the Nilotic frontier: imperial Ethiopia in the southern Sudan, 1898-1936 by Douglas H. Johnson - Epilogue by Wendy James - Select bibliography