Feasting on history : Ethiopia and the Orientalists /
"Feasting on History is the first intellectual history of the Italo-Ethiopian relationship and its international reverberations. Its focus is the enduring rivalry of Heruy Wäldä Sellasé, an eminent Ethiopian scholar and statesman, and Enrico Cerulli, an Italian orientalist and senior fascist of...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
[2025]
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| Series: | Columbia studies in international and global history.
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| Summary: | "Feasting on History is the first intellectual history of the Italo-Ethiopian relationship and its international reverberations. Its focus is the enduring rivalry of Heruy Wäldä Sellasé, an eminent Ethiopian scholar and statesman, and Enrico Cerulli, an Italian orientalist and senior fascist official. Challenging essentialist narratives of African and European intellectual history, it offers an original and wide-ranging exploration of the colonial politics of expertise, the destructive power of weaponized knowledge, and the impact of both upon postcolonial trauma. A moving account of the international struggle to control Ethiopia's past and future, this book contributes to scholarship and contemporary debates about colonial genocide, stolen heritage, and the decolonization of human rights"-- Provided by publisher. |
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| Physical Description: | xi, 450 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780231217750 0231217757 9780231217767 0231217765 |