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In questa sezione vengono segnalate pubblicazioni recenti dei soci di Ethnorêma.

Massimo Zaccaria (2024) 
Missions Abyssines.
L’Etiopia, la Grande guerra e la Conferenza della pace. 

Roma: Viella.

Nella storia della Prima guerra mondiale, e poi in quella della Conferenza della pace di Parigi, l’Africa non ha quasi spazio e a stento vi sarebbe entrata se non fosse stato per le operazioni del generale Paul Emil von Lettow-Vorbeck e delle sue truppe nell’Africa orientale.
Attraverso il caso di tre delegazioni che, nella primavera del 1919, il governo etiopico inviò in Europa e negli Stati Uniti, questo volume offre una nuova interpretazione dell’impatto della Grande guerra sull’Etiopia e sui paesi vicini. Sulla base di un’ampia documentazione d’archivio e iconografica, l’autore ricostruisce la vicenda di queste tre missioni inserendola nel contesto storico, ne ripercorre le tappe e si interroga sui suoi veri obiettivi.
Ne emerge l’immagine di un paese determinato a salvaguardare a ogni costo la propria indipendenza e deciso a rispondere colpo su colpo alle manovre dell’Italia che, a partire dal 1917, aveva cominciato a premere per ridefinire gli equilibri politici del Corno d’Africa con l’obiettivo di porre l’Etiopia sotto il suo esclusivo controllo.

Moreno Vergari (ed.) with contributions of Ahmedsaad Mohammed Omer, Giorgio Banti, Gianni Dore, Moreno Vergari and Roberta Vergari (2022)
Housing and dwelling among the Saho-speaking communities of Eritrea and Ethiopia. History, anthropology and lexicography. 

ATrA 9. Trieste: EUT.

This book is the results of field research among the Saho-speaking communities of Eritrea and Ethiopia by a linguists and anthropologists from the non-profit association “Ethnorêma”, the University of Naples L’Orientale, the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and local institutions. It is a product of the “Atlas of the Traditional Material Culture of the Saho” project, which aims at documenting the traditional material culture of the Saho, its variation and terminology across the different Saho-speaking communities of Eritrea and northern Ethiopia, and the more general dialect variation in phonology, grammar and the lexicon. In particular, this volume describes the Saho speakers’ knowledge of construction techniques and its lexicon, sociofamilial aspects related to dwelling and the daily activities associated in types of residences and their outbuildings. Comparison with research from the early 20th century provides a diachronic dimension, while the data elicited in some 20 different localities ensure synchronic depth, with a focus on dialectal variation. After a general introduction, Gianni Dore’s contribution is an extensive historical-anthropological description of these issues. Moreno and Roberta Vergari, and Ahmedsaad Mohammed Omer’s one is a rich encyclopedic lexicon of the terms related to dwelling and household activities.

Gianni Dore (2021) 
Capi locali e colonialismo in Eritrea.
Biografie di un potere subordinato. 

Roma: Viella.

Alla fine della guerra contro l’Etiopia – tra il 1936 e il 1941 – i funzionari coloniali italiani, militari e civili, dovettero gestire l’amministrazione e la vita quotidiana dei territori di vecchia e recente conquista, fronteggiando insieme le attività di resistenza armata, fino alla dissoluzione dell’impero. Il volume, servendosi dei documenti scritti e iconografici dell’archivio del commissariato coloniale di Agordat, ricostruisce dispositivi e pratiche della gestione del potere in una sezione dell’impero, il bassopiano occidentale eritreo, inserita nella rete di scambi tra il Mar Rosso e l’interno sudanese. Interpretando le “mini-storie” di vita e le note amministrative contenute nelle schede biografiche, corredate anche dalle foto individuali, lo studio analizza la relazione, contraddittoria e sempre in fieri, con i poteri subordinati, incorporati nei capi politici e religiosi, e inoltre con i notabili di ufficio e gli interpreti, figure necessarie di un’ambigua intermediazione tra colonizzatori e colonizzati.

Ilaria Micheli (2018)
Grammatical Sketch and Short Vocabulary of the Ogiek Language of Mariashoni. 
ATrA 4. Trieste: EUT.

Ogiek is a Nilo-Saharan, Satellite-Core, Core, Eastern Sudanic, Southern, Nilotic, Southern, Kalenjin language spoken by a community of Hunters and Gatherers living in the region of the Eastern Escarpement of the Mau Forest in Kenya. In the framework of a still very poorly described linguistic family, this work represents a first, non exhaustive and tentative descriptive grammatical sketch of the dialect spoken by the circa 15.000 Ogiek belonging to the 7 clans of the Morisionig family. The book contains also a short vocabulary of the language, where 646 Ogiek entries are recorded. The vocabulary is completed by a corresponding English-Ogiek wordlist.

Shiferaw Bekele, Uoldelul Chelati Dirar, Alessandro Volterra e Massimo Zaccaria (eds.) (2018)
The First World War from Tripoli to Addis Ababa (1911-1924). 
Addis Abeba: Centre français des études éthiopiennes.

For a long time now it has been common understanding that Africa played only a marginal role in the First World War. Its reduced theatre of operations appeared irrelevant to the strategic balance of the major powers. This volume is a contribution to the growing body of historical literature that explores the global and social history of the First World War. It questions the supposedly marginal role of Africa during the Great War with a special focus on Northeast Africa. In fact, between 1911 and 1924 a series of influential political and social upheavals took place in the vast expanse between Tripoli and Addis Ababa. The First World War was to profoundly change the local balance of power. This volume consists of fifteen chapters divided into three sections. The essays examine the social, political and operational course of the war and assess its consequences in a region straddling Africa and the Middle East. The relationship between local events and global processes is explored, together with the regional protagonists and their agency. Contrary to the myth still prevailing, the First World War did have both immediate and long-term effects on the region. This book highlights some of the significant aspects associated with it.

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