Feasting on History : Ethiopia and the Orientalists.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

De Lorenzi, James.

Series:

Columbia Studies in International and Global History Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cerulli, Enrico.

Heruy Walda Sellase, 1878-1938.

Heruy Walda Sellase.

Orientalism.

Ethiopia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (465 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, 2025.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

Feasting on History is a wide-ranging intellectual history of the Italian-Ethiopian relationship, told through the intertwined lives of Heruy Wäldä Sellasé, an Ethiopian writer and civil servant, and Enrico Cerulli, an Italian Orientalist and colonial official.

Contents:

Intro

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I: Feasts of History

1. The Power of Tradition

2. Mysterious Magic

3. Reading Philology in Addis Ababa

Part II: Imperial Andromeda

4. Ferragosto

5. Mäskäräm

6. "Cerulli and His Ilk"

Part III: Years of Hardship

7. The Chronicler of Asinara

8. Survival in Shäwa

9. Bath and Dhanaane

Part IV: Dead Reckoning

10. Case 7887

11. Field Operations

Conclusion

Glossary

Transliteration and Dates

List of Abbreviations

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

0-231-21777-3

OCLC:

1521495491