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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Oromo"”.
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Pilgrimages and syncretism: Religious Transformation Among the Arsi Oromo of Ethiopia
Currently, the majority of the Arsi Oromo are either Muslims or Christians. However, most of them still practice their traditional beliefs passed down through generations by their forefathers, such as Waaqeffannaa, and attend various rituals related to it. Waaqeffannaa is a religion based on belief …
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Invisible Actors: The Oromo and the Creation of Modern Ethiopia (1855--1913)
This is a comprehensive study of key Oromo actors in the central Ethiopia traditional provinces of Wallo and Shawa, specifically the Mammadoch of Wallo and the Tulama of Shawa during the reigns of Emperors Tewodros II (r.1855-68), Yohannes IV (1872-1888) and Menilek II (1889-1913). The Oromo …
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Culture and Identity: A Portraiture-Based Study of Oromo Family Child Care Providers
This study explores the experiences of Oromo family child care providers within Washington State’s Quality Rating and Improvement System (QRIS) - Early Achievers. I conducted a portraiture-based study using qualitative methods to investigate how Oromo family child care providers narrate their …
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From slavery to freedom : the Oromo slave children of Lovedale, prosopography and profiles.
… a British warship liberated a consignment of Oromo child slaves in the Red Sea and took them to Aden. A year later, a further group of liberated Oromo slave children joined them at a Free Church of Scotland mission at Sheikh Othman, just north of Aden. When a number of the children died within …
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By the Community, for the Community: An Investigation of Participatory Video with Karrayyu Oromo pastoralists, Ethiopia
… produce an ethnographic description of Karrayyu Oromo community, lifestyle and culture which is accessible by and useful for community members, as well as researchers. The Karrayyu are one of the last Oromo groups to practice pastoralism and Oromo traditions such as the Gadaa system and …
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ETHNOGRAPHY OF RESISTANCE POETICS: Power and Authority in Salale Oromo Folklore and Resistance Culture (Ethiopia, Northeast Africa)
… POETICS: Power and Authority in Salale Oromo Folklore and Resistance Culture (Ethiopia, Northeast Africa) This dissertation is an interdisciplinary folkloristic search for resistance poetics in tradition-oriented folklore of the Salale Oromo in central Ethiopia using both a diachronic …
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Land tenure and agriculture in Sayyoo-Afillo, Western Wallaga, Ethiopia, 1880-1974
… outlines the agrarian history of the Oromo from their sixteenth century migration to the twentieth century. Using linguistic evidence the study argues that in the pre-sixteenth century period the pastoral and the agricultural Oromo had an interdependent economy and a unified culture. …
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The ReSisters: Contemporary Ethiopia through a Feminist Lens
… Ethiopia, there is a strong indication that the Oromo people of Ethiopia, who are at the forefront of these protests, have been placed in a position of marginal importance, influence and power in their society. Due to the power and agency wielded by the government, some ethnic groups in Ethiopia, …
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Haile Selassie and the Religious Field: Generative Structuralism and Christian Missions in Ethiopia
… formation of resistant identities for Maale and Oromo converts. In analyzing these processes, the thesis also employs Robin Horton's theory of conversion while refuting Horton's broader claim about the superficiality of Christianity in Africa.
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Life Stories and the Search for Educational Possibilities
… stories that this person—Gurraacha Sabaa, an Oromo activist—told me as part of my work at the Dream Desk, a community-based education project designed to strengthen and support learning networks in the communities around a public library in Minneapolis. My interpretive retelling of Gurraacha’s …
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Protests, Development and Democratization in Ethiopia, 2014-2020
… the thesis explores how the recent Amhara and Oromo youth struggle for democracy has contributed to the activation of a movement that exposed Ethiopia's long-standing political vulnerability, bringing together social forces and social groups that were rival and fragmented in the interest of …
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Invisibilized Providers: The Role of Racialized Diasporas in Refugee Sponsorship
… and contributions of Ethiopian, Eritrean, and Oromo diasporas in Alberta, British Columbia, and Ontario. A ‘study up’ technique is used to examine the complexities of power at multiple sites and scales. It engages with feminist geopolitics/politics of security to develop analyses of refugee …
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Specters of Ethiopia. The Ethiopian Student Movement and its evocation of the ‘National Question’ during the global-local long Sixties
… realm of the Ethiopian empire–– such as the Oromo, the Wolaita, the Sidama, the Somali societies––under the banner of a universal ‘civilizing mission.’ <br /><br /> Contrary to conventional postcolonial/de-colonial discourses that tend to flatten the ambivalence of modernity as if the …