Cenni monografici sul paese dei Gherire (Mogadiscio, 1938) – a pioneer work on the Gerire Hills in western Ogaden, south-eastern Ethiopia : – introduced, translated and provided with annotations and a revision of the botanical collections

Ib Friis

doi:10.1080/00837792.2018.1553281

Cenni monografici sul paese dei Gherire (Mogadiscio, 1938) – a pioneer work on the Gerire Hills in western Ogaden, south-eastern Ethiopia : – introduced, translated and provided with annotations and a revision of the botanical collections

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Abstract

In the light of current knowledge and after a visit to the area, the author of this paper presents an annotated English translation (and in some places an interpretation) of the previously unpublished report of an Italian multidisciplinary expedition in 1937 to the Gerire Hills. At that time, these hills were part of the Governato della Somalia in the Italian East African Empire, but they are now part of the Somali Regional State of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia. The 1937 expedition included specialists in mapping and topography, geology and hydrology, ethnography, agronomy, vegetation and indigenous flora, the latter documented by collections now at the Centro Studi Erbario Tropicale (Herbarium FT), University of Firenze. The report, signed by the leader of the expedition, was submitted to the Governor of Somalia in February 1938. A brief summary was published in a journal in the same year, but otherwise the rich information in this report remains virtually unknown and hardly utilised or cited anywhere. An exception is the botanical material, which has been discussed in a number of later publications, but, due to lack of knowledge of the information available in the original report, the ecology of the Gerire Hills was not well understood. The most important observations in the report relate to the detailed topographical mapping; the ethnological observations, according to which the Gerire language and culture are predominantly Somali, although also with significant Oromo influence; observations on the practices and long history of local agriculture; and the preliminary survey of the vegetation and flora, where the past importance of Juniperus procera woodland is documented.

Translated title of the contribution	Monografiske noter om Gherire-folkets land (Mogadishu, 1938) - et pionerarbejde omhandlende Gerire-bjergene i det vestlige del af Ogaden (Syd-øst Etiopien) : - med introduktion, oversat og kommenteret, samt med en revision af de botaniske indsamlinger
Original language	English
Journal	Webbia
Volume	74 (supplement)
Pages (from-to)	1-108
ISSN	0083-7792
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/00837792.2018.1553281
Publication status	Published - 30 Apr 2019

Keywords

Faculty of Science
Agriculture
botany
East Africa
ethnography
ethnology
geology
history
Horn of Africa
land tenure
local flora
topography

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