E. Cerullis Folk-literature Of The Galla Of Southern Abyssinia Acriticuation

This thesis has four chanters. Its main urpose 1S to closelyrnstudy ~nd critically evaluate so as to ~nalyse whether texts in Cerulli vsrnPolk-Literature of the Galla of Southern .byssinia have cultural andrnhistorical significance to nresen.t-day Ethiopia. The process employedrnto achieve the objective of the thesis is as follm07s.rnChapter I resents brief notes to the statement of the problem,rnimportance of tne study 9 limitations and scope of the research, andrnphonemic notation. After a brief note on the Dromo, and on Loransiyos,rnCerulli's informant , chauter 11 deals t.,ith the nRture of the materialrnin Folk- Literature of the Galla of Southern Abyssinia. Chanter III isrndevoted to examininp, cultur~l and historical significance of Cerulli 1 srncollections to present-dav Ethiopia. Since thi3 chapter is mainlyrnconcerned with evaluating Cerulli's vlOrk from cultural and his to ri calrnpoints of V1e 9 it cornnrises the core of the thesis.rn13ased on the discussion in the foregoing chapters within thernlimitations of this study, mapter 117 presents the conclusions t~usrnbrin,ginR the thesis to an end vi th ::l hrief discussion of Cerulli Y srnpioneering contribution to the study of Dromo folk literature

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