Gumuz

Gumuz

ethnic group
group=Gumuz


poptime=218,000
popplace= Ethiopia: 151,000fact|date=January 2008 Sudan: 67,000fact|date=January 2008

rels=Predominately traditional, also Islam and Christian
langs= Gumuz
dailects= Disoha (Desua), Dakunza (Degoja, Dukunza, Gunza, Ganza, Dukuna, Dugunza), Sai, Sese (Saysay), Dekoka, Dewiya, Kukwaya, Gombo, Jemhwa, Modea: 151,000 [ " [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=guk Ethnologue] "]
related= Gule, Kwama, Opuuo, Uduk, Komo

Gumuz (also spelled Gumaz) is an ethnic group living in the Benishangul-Gumuz Region and the Qwara woreda of Ethiopia, as well as the Fazogli region of Sudan; they number about 200,000. In the past, they have been lumped with other peoples living along the Sudanese-Ethiopian border under the name of Shanqella (Pankhurst 1977). As "Shanquella", they are already mentioned by Scottish explorer James Bruce in his "Travels to discover the source of the Nile", published in 1790. He notes that they hunt with bows and arrows, a custom that survives today.

Their language is called Gumuz, which is classified as a Nilo-Saharan language (Bender 1979) and is subdivided in several dialects (Ahland 2004, Unseth 1985). Most members of this group live in a bush-savanna lowland environment. According to their traditions, in earlier times they inhabited the western parts of the province of Gojjam, but they were progressively banished to the inhospitable area of the Blue Nile and its tributaries by their more powerful neighbors -the Amhara and Agaw- who also enslaved them (Wolde-Selassie Abbute 2004). Slavery did not disappear in Ethiopia until the 1940s. Descendants of Gumuz people taken as slaves to the area just south of Welqite were found to still be speaking the language in 1984 (Unseth 1985).

The Gumuz practice shifting cultivation and their staple food is sorghum (Wallmark 1981). Cereal crops are kept in granaries decorated with clay lumps imitating female breasts. Sorghum is used for cooking porridge ("nga") and brewing beer ("kea"). All the cooking and brewing is carried out in earthen pots, which are made by women. The Gumuz also hunt wild animals, such as duikers and warthogs, and gather honey, wild fruits, roots and seeds. Those living near the Sudanese borderland converted to Islam and a few are Christians, but most Gumuz still maintain traditional religious practices. Spirits are called "mus'a " and are thought to dwell in houses, granaries, fields, trees and mountains. They have ritual specialists called "gafea". Originally, all Gumuz adorned their bodies with scarifications, but this custom is disappearing through government pressure and education. All Gumuz are organized in clans. Feuds between clans are common and they are usually solved by means of an institution of conflict resolution, called "mangema" or [http://www.ossrea.net/ssrr/no25/no25-02.htm "michu"] depending on the region. As among the Sudanese Uduk, marriage is through sister exchange (James 1975, 1986; Klausberger 1975).

Bibliography

* Abbute, Wolde-Selassie. 2004. "Gumuz and Highland resettlers. Differing strategies of livelihood and ethnic relations in Metekel, Northwestern Ethiopia". Münster: Lit.
* Ahland, Colleen Anne. 2004. "Linguistic variation within Gumuz: a study of the relationship between historical change and intelligibility." M.A. thesis. University of Texas at Arlington.
* Ahmad, Abdussamad H. 1995. The Gumuz of the Lowlands of Western Gojjam: The frontier in History 1900-1935. "Africa" 50(1): 53-67.
* Ahmad, Abdussamad H. 1999. Trading in slaves in Bela-Shangul and Gumuz, Ethiopia: border enclaves in history, 1897-1938. "Journal of African History" 40(3): 433-446.
* Bender, M. Lionel. 1979. Gumuz: a sketch of grammar and lexicon. "Afrika und Übersee" 62: 38-69.
* Bender, M. Lionel] . 1994. Comparative Komuz grammar. "Afrika und Übersee" 77: 31-54.
* Grottanelli, Vinigi, L. 1948. I Preniloti: un’arcaica provincia culturale in Africa. "Annali Lateranensi" 12: 280-326.
* Haberland, Eike. 1953. Über einen unbekannten Gunza-stamm in Wallegga. "Rassegna di Studi Etiopici" 12: 139-148.
* James, Wendy. 1975. Sister exchange marriage. "Scientific American" 233(6): 84-94.
* James, Wendy. 1980. “From aboriginal to frontier society in western Ethiopia. In "Working papers on society and history in Imperial Ethiopia: The southern periphery from 1880 to 1974", edited by Donald L. Donham and Wendy James. Cambridge: African Studies Center, Cambridge University Press.
* James, Wendy. 1986. “Lifelines: exchange marriage among the Gumuz”. In "The southern marches of Imperial Ethiopia. Essays in history and social anthropology", edited by D.L. Donham and W. James. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press: 119-147.
* Klausberger, Friedrich. 1975. Bashanga, das Strafrecht der Baga-Gumuz. "Ethnologische Zeitschrift" (Zürich) 1: 109-126.
* Pankhurst, Richard. 1977. The history of Bareya, Sanquella and other Ethiopian slaves from the borderlands of the Sudan. "Sudan Notes and Records" 58: 1-43.
* Simmoons, Frederick. 1958. The agricultural implements and cutting tools of Begemder and Semyen, Ethiopia. "South West Journal of Anthropology" 14: 386-406.
* Unseth, Peter. 1985. Gumuz: a dialect survey report. "Journal of Ethiopian Studies" 18: 91-114.
* Unseth, Peter. 1989. Selected aspects of Gumuz phonology. "Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Ethiopian Studies", Addis Ababa, 1984: 617-32.
* Uzar, Henning. 1993. “Studies in Gumuz: Sese phonology and TMA system”. In "Topics in Nilo-Saharan linguistics", edited by M.L. Bender. Hamburg: Helmut Buske: 347-383.
* Wallmark, Peter. 1981. “The Bega (Gumuz) of Wellega: Agriculture and subsistence”. In "Peoples and cultures of the Ethio-Sudan borderlands", edited by M.L. Bender. East Lansing: Michigan State University, African Studies Centre: 79-116.
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