The Native Peoples of Eritrea
- ISBN-10
- 1569020949
- ISBN-13
- 9781569020944
- Category
- Eritrea
- Pages
- 384
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1999
- Publisher
- Red Sea Press(NJ)
- Author
- Alberto Pollera
Description
This book was originally published in Italian in 1935 as Le Popolazioni Indigene Dell'Eritrea. first part of this book presents an overview of the history of Eritrea from its earliest, legendary origins to the spread of Islam. Pollera's purpose is to acquaint the reader with the many different cultural influences that shaped the development of the populations living in this vast territory. The various waves of immigrants to this region, their domination of the aboriginal people living in the area, and subsequent waves of migrating pastoral peoples from the north and from other areas contributed to create a unique ethnic and cultural matrix from whence the peoples of Eritrea sprang, intermingling over the span of many centuries, while successively receiving influences from the civilizations of Egypt, Meroe, Axum and Gondar. Pollera devotes several chapters to the origins of the great indigenous peoples of present-day Eritrea: the Afar the Agau, the Bilen (Bogos), the Beja, the Balau, the Kunama, the Nara, the Rashida, the Saho, the Tigre, Tigrinya, and discusses the spread of Christianity and later of Islam and their impact on the evolution of these peoples, particularly tracing the origins of the Tigre and Tigrinya languages.
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