INTRODUCTION TO ETHIOPIAN CIVLIZATION: INTRO TO AFRICAN CIV III

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Spring 2012, MWF 11:30am-12:20pm        SOCI 20213 = ANTH 20703, CRES 20303, HIST 10103                

D. Levine

Social Science 302

INTRODUCTION TO ETHIOPIAN CIVLIZATION:

INTRO TO AFRICAN CIV III

	Topics	Required Readings		Supplementary Material
I.	CONSIDERING ETHIOPIA
1. Mon  Mar 26	What is a Civilization?	Lecture: “Why Does the College Have a Civ Requirement?” Redfield, "Civilization" [CHALK]		Levine, “What is Educational About the Study of Civilizations?” Powers of the Mind, 146-74
2. Wed  Mar 28	Popular images:  5 + 2; Scholarly perspectives: 4+1	Levine, Greater Ethiopia, chs. 1 and 2		Redfield, Peasant Society and Culture
AS A SEMITIC OUTPOST
3. Fri Mar 30	The civilization of Aksum	Munro-Hay, Aksum, selections from chs. 1, 4, 5, 7, 9 (SR I)		Aksumite coinage display
II.
4. Mon Apr 2	Semitic and Cushitic Language Families	Hetzron "Afroasiatic Languages” and “Semitic Languages” (SRII.1) Gragg, “Ge’ez (Aksum)”, 427-32 (SR II.2)		Languages in Ethiopia, ed. M. L. Bender et al
5.Wed Apr 4	Judaic traditions in Ethiopia	Kebra Nagast, 5-51 Ullendorff, Ethiopia and the Bible, 1-4, 15-30, 87-113 (SR II.3)		Moscati, Ancient Semitic Civilizations Leslau ed., Falasha Anthology Kaplan, The Beta Israel (Falasha) in Ethiopia
6. Fri Apr 6	Early Christianity	Munro-Hay, Aksum, chs 10 and 13 (SR I)		Davis, The First Seven Ecumenical Councils
III.
7. Mon Apr 9	Ethiopian Christianity, The Zagwe Period	Tadesse Tamrat, Church and State in Ethiopia, 1270-1527, 21-68 Heldman,  "The Zagwe Dynasty" (SR II.4)		Tibebe Eshete, The Evangelical Movement in Ethiopia, ch.1 Pictorial representations of Lalibela
8. Wed Apr 11	Ethiopic literature	Getatchew Haile, "Ethiopic Literature" (SR II.5) Kebra Nagast, 53-87, 119-30; GE, ch. 7		Grierson and Munroe-Hay, The Ark of the Covenant Kebra Nagast Parts IV and V
9. Fri Apr 13	Ethiopian Christian art	Heldman, “Maryam Seyon: Mary of Zion” (SR II.6)		Field Trip #1: Art Institute of Chicago Presentation by African Art curator Kathleen Berzock
IV.
10. Mon Apr 16	The medieval polity	Tadesse Tamrat, Church and State in Ethiopia, 1270-1527, 69-106 The Glorious Victories of Amda Tseyon 52-75, 80-110 (SR II. 7)		Pankhurst, ed.  The Ethiopian Royal Chronicles
11. Wed Apr 18	Medieval religious movements	Tadesse Tamrat, Church and State in Ethiopia, 1270-1527, 107-18 Gedle Estifanos (Acts of Saint Stephen) [CHALK]		Slides of Ethiopian Christian art
12.  Fri Apr 20	Post-medieval Amhara culture	Wax and Gold, 18-54, 148-77 Greater Ethiopia, ch. 8, 113-27		Tekalign Gedamu, Republicans on the Throne, chs 1-3 Wax and Gold, ch. 3
V.	AS AN ETHNIC MUSEUM
13. Mon Apr 23	Islam in Ethiopia	Trimingham, Islam in Ethiopia, 76-93, 147-53, 225-81 (SR III.1)		Trimingham, Islam in Ethiopia, 153-225 Burton, First Footsteps in East Africa Lewis, I.M., Peoples of the Horn of Africa (Afar, Saho, Somali)
14. Wed Apr 25	Oromo peoples I	Trimingham, Islam in Ethiopia, 93-95 (SR III.1) Greater Ethiopia, ch. 9, "The Oromo System" 128-145		Bahrey, History of the Galla Hassen, Oromo of Ethiopia, 1-47 Legesse, “Class Systems Based on Time"; Gada
15. Fri Apr 27	Oromo peoples II	Legesse, Oromo Democracy, 41-131 (SR III. 2)		Lewis, Herbert, Jimma Abba Jifar:  An Oromo Monarchy Lewis, "Values and Procedures in Conflict Resolution among Shoan Oromo" Baxter et al ed., Being and Becoming Oromo
VI.
16. Mon Apr 30	Peoples of Greater Ethiopia	Greater Ethiopia, ch. 3; Appendix		Field trip #2: Regenstein Library
17. Wed May 2	Peoples of Greater Ethiopia	Greater Ethiopia, ch. 4		Reports from the field
AS A MODERNIZING NATION-STATE
18. Fri  May 4	Modernizing impetus: international context	Bahru Zewde, A History of Modern Ethiopia, 1855-1974, 1-49 (SR III.3)		Trimingham, Islam in Ethiopia, 98-114 Abir, Ethiopia: The Era of the Princes Crummey, “Doctrines and Divisions”   (SR IV.2)
VII.
19. Mon May 7	Political foundation of a modern nation	Zewde, History, 49-80 (SR III.3)		Rubenson, The Survival of Ethiopian Independence Tesfaye Tegenu, The Evolution of Ethiopian Absolutism
20. Wed May 9	Sociocultural foundations of a modern nation	Levine, Greater Ethiopia, 69-86, 109-11, 146-64		Marcus, The Life and Times of Menilek II Greater Ethiopia, Ch. 11 Merse Hazen Wolde Qirqos, Of What I Saw and Heard
21. Fri May 11	Climax at Adwa	Levine, "Adwa as a Historic Event" Zewde, History, 81-85 (SR III.3)		Field trip #3: TBD Film screening: Haile Gerima, “Adwa?” Ethiopian Review, Issue on Adwa Centennial
VIII.
22. Mon May 14	Haile Selassie’s Coming to Power	Zewde, History, 111-49, 189-209 (SR III.3)		Marcus, Haile Sellassie I Del Boca, The Ethiopian War, chs. 13-21
23. Wed May 16	Haile Selassie I, Triumph and Downfall, 1942-1974	Levine, Wax and Gold, 177-217		Gilkes, The Dying Lion Abebe Ambatchew, A Glimpse of Greatness Yemane Demssie film: Twilight Revelations: Episodes in the Life & Times of Emperor Haile Selassie
24. Fri May 18	An Era of Revolution:  1960 to 1974	Zewde, History, 209-26 (SR III.3) Gilkes, The Dying Lion, preface (SR) Tekalign Gedamu, Republicans on the Throne, chs. 4-7		Ottoway, Ethiopia, Empire in Revolution Bereket Habte Selassie, Riding the Whirlwind Messay Kebede, Political Radicalism in Ethiopia and  d the Fall of emperor Haile Selassie
IX.
25. Mon May 21	The Derg period, 1974-91	Clapham, Transformation and Continuity in Revolutionary Ethiopia, chs. 3-4 (SR) Tekalign Gedamu, Republicans on the Throne, chs. 10-12	Clapham, Transformation, chs.1-2 Wolde Giorgis, Red Tears Spector, Operation Solomon Henze, “Behind the Ethiopian Famine”
IN WORLD HISTORIC PERSPECTIVES
26. Wed May 23	In the “Post-Communist” Era: the EPRDF period	Henze, "Ethiopia: The Fall of the Derg & the Beginning of Recovery   under the EPRDF" (?) Levine, "Paul Henze & the ERPDF" (?) Cohen, “Ethnic Federalism” (?) Henze, "Who 'Lost' Eritrea? What Has Been ‘Lost'?” (?)	Lewis, "Ethnicity in Ethiopia: The View from Below (and from the South, East, and West," in Crawford Young, ed., The Rising Tide of Cultural Pluralism Hoben, “Paradigms and Politics” Vestal, Ethiopia: A Post-Cold War African State
27. Fri May 25	Ethiopia’s Nationhood in a Global Era	Levine, “Ethiopia’s Nationhood Reconsidered” (Handout) Kaplan & Rosen, "Ethiopian Immigrants in Israel” (?)	Field trip #4: TBD
X.
28. Wed May 30	The question of Ethiopian civilization  today	Levine, “Ethiopia and Japan in Comparative Civilizational Perspective” [CHALK] Levine, “Evolutionary Grades in Greater Ethiopia” [CHALK]	Eisenstadt, “On Multiple Modernities” Eisenstadt, “Mirror Identities: Japan and the United States”