The Space of the Oral in the History of the construction of kingly territories in Gondar, Northern Ethiopia

In the present paper I propose to bring together two literary traditions: that of European written documental sources on the history of Portuguese-Ethiopian contacts during the sixteenth-seventeenth centuries and oral literature recently collected in Northern Ethiopia concerning the political and re...

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Autor principal: Ramos, Manuel João (author)
Formato: conferenceObject
Idioma:eng
Publicado em: 2012
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Texto completo:http://hdl.handle.net/10071/3824
País:Portugal
Oai:oai:repositorio.iscte-iul.pt:10071/3824
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Resumo:In the present paper I propose to bring together two literary traditions: that of European written documental sources on the history of Portuguese-Ethiopian contacts during the sixteenth-seventeenth centuries and oral literature recently collected in Northern Ethiopia concerning the political and religious transformations occurred in that same period in that region.