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Allan Hoben. Land Tenure Among the Amhara of Ethiopia: The Dynamics of Cognatic Descent. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1973. xiv + 273 pp. Tables, maps, figures, glossary, appendix, bibliography, index. $9.50
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Allan Hoben. Land Tenure Among the Amhara of Ethiopia: The Dynamics of Cognatic Descent. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1973. xiv + 273 pp. Tables, maps, figures, glossary, appendix, bibliography, index. $9.50
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1 John Markakis notes that “gult … served to maintain a non-productive ruling class composed of the aristocracy and ecclesiastical hierarchy.” John Markakis, “Social Transformation in Ethiopia: Prelude to Revolution” (paper presented at the 20th Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association, Houston, 1977), p. 10.
2 See, for example, Cohen, John M. and Weintraub, Dov, Land and Peasants in Imperial Ethiopia (Assen: Van Gorcum & Company, 1975), pp. 50–57 Google Scholar.
3 Also see Markakis, “Social Transformation in Ethiopia, ” op. cit., p. 14.
4 See Siegfried Pausewang, “Problems of Transition from Subsistence Farming to Market Production in Rural Ethiopia” (paper presented at the Conference on Rural Transformation in East Africa, Nazareth, Ethiopia, 1976), pp. 9-10, 13.
5 Hoben, Allan, “Perspectives on Land Reform in Ethiopia: The Political Role of the Peasantry,” Rural Africana, No. 28 (Fall 1975): 65 Google Scholar.
6 Also see Markakis, “Social Transformation in Ethiopia,” op. cit., p. 15.