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| Title: | Land, literacy and the state in the history of Sudanic Africa |
| Editor: | Crummey, Donald |
| Year: | 2005 |
| Pages: | 274 |
| Language: | English |
| City of publisher: | Trenton, NJ |
| Publisher: | Red Sea Press |
| ISBN: | 1569021821; 156902183X |
| Geographic terms: | West Africa Sudan Ethiopia |
| Subjects: | State formation land use agricultural land historical sources |
| Abstract: | This collection explores a range of societal relations in Sudanic Africa which shaped, and were shaped by, the existence of coercive states. Those states were interested in the control of productive resources as the information which they have left behind suggests. That information pertains above all to agricultural land. The chapters are organized into four sections: Conceptualization (Lidwien Kapteijns and Jay Spaulding on land tenure in the precolonial Sudan) - Primitive accumulation and literacy (Augustin Holl on the rise of Kanuri in the central Sudan, 1200-1600; Stephen Reyna on state formation in Bagirmi, 1846-1877) - The politics of land (Janet Ewald on the Taqali Kingdom, 1750-1884 (Sudan); George Michael La Rue on land, power and state formation in 18th and 19th-century Dar Fur; Gulumu Gemeda on land, agriculture and social class formation in the Giber region of Ethiopia; Merid Wolde Aregay on military elites in medieval Ethiopia; Irma Taddia on state control and the land tenure system in 19th-century Ethiopa) - Land and documents (Anders Bjorkelo on landsale contracts as historical sources; Donald Crummey and Daniel Ayana on the establishment of Gemjabét Kidanä Mehret Church in Däbrä Marqos, Gojjam Province; Hussein Ahmad on 'waaf'-land in 19th-century Wällo; and Allan Christelow on land rights, commerce and royal authority in Kano, Nigeria). [ASC Leiden abstract] |
