Being and Becoming Oromo: Historical and Anthropological Enquiries Book

	Glossary	5
	Introduction	9
	Hawani's Story	26
	The Development of Oromo Political Consciousness from 1958 to 1994	37
	The Survival and Reconstruction of Oromo National Identity	48
	The Development of Oromo Nationalism	67
	Perceiving Oromo: 'Galla' in the Great Narrative of Ethiopia	81
	Oromumma: Tradition, Consciousness and Identity	92
	Re-Examining the Galla/Oromo Relationship: The Stranger as a Structural Topic	103
	Being Gabra Today	114
	Shifting Identities along Resource Borders: Becoming and Continuing to be Boorana Oromo	117
	The Political Viability of Boorana Pastoralism: A Discussion of Some Features of the Political System of the Borana Pastoralists of Southern Ethiopia	132
	Power's Ambiguity or the Political Significance of Gada	150
	Sources of Life and Identity	162
	Towards a Comparative Ethnography of the Oromo: The Importance of Affines	178
	Keeping the 'Peace of the Waso Boorana': Becoming Oromo through Religious Diversification	190
	Traditional and Modern Cooperatives among the Oromo	202
	The Becoming of Place: A Tulama-Oromo Region of Northern Shoa	210
	Adopting an Ambiguous Position: Oromo Relationships with Strangers	239
	United and Divided: Boorana and Gabaro among the Macha Oromo in Western Ethiopia	251
	The Poetics of Nationalism: A Poem by Jarso Waaqo Qoot'o	265
	List of References	291
	About the Contributors	309
Appendix	Regional division before 1989 and after 1991	311