Ta'a, Tesema (Prof.)Akuma, Seketa2021-11-222023-11-192021-11-222023-11-192018-06http://etd.aau.edu.et/handle/12345678/28802This thesis is a hi t rical survey ofsocio-cultural interactions among the people ' 0 Gidda district from the Italian occupation in 1936 to the period IVhen interactions between indigenous Oromo people and the Amhara reselliers gave ri e to open war in 2000. Gidda district is located in Eastern Wallagga ::.one of Western Ethiopia. nlil the GoBame and Shoans conquered the area in the last quarter of the 191t. centwy, no new order was imposed on the socio-cultural lives of the people except for the emergence of monarchical chiefs whose powers had weakened the gadaa system. Therefore, the people of the district IVho had different clans, 'ub-clans and lineages had lived by practicing their indigenous religion and other socio-cultural practices. Throughout the period under study. three historical developments had been experienced and tram/ormed the socio-cultural interactions of the people. These are the natural socio-cultural interactions among the local people, the impacts of the newly introduced religions and the arrival of reseltlers fro m northern parts of Ethiopia. The legacies and the consequences of conquest accompanied by these three historical developments as well as other changes and continuities brought the socio-cultural t ran~form atio n among the inhabitants of the area. On the side of the ne}vly arrived reselliers, their spontaneous advent and the continual changes in their sentiments increased their interactions with the indigenous people. Consequently, combinations of cooperation and conf lict as well as interactions and isolationism characterized the relationships between the /1Vo groups. AI/o st of the time, intensity of inter-ethnic su.spicion and isolationism exceeds that of the cooperation and consistent peacefit! interactions. This problem emanates from and utmost related to the roles played by the exploitative and suppressive Ethiopian governments. Among the newly introduced religions, Orthodox Christianity and Protestantism brought remarkable socio-cultural tran~fo rmations. As the people adopted and added the ideologies of the new religions to their own, many of them modified their social lives, food and food habits, marriage practices, fimeral system and their allitudes towards different rituals to the extent that the ideologies of the two religions intermingled at least in the heart of the people. As a part of the gadaa .system, the indigenous religion of the people had already been internalized. Therefore, the newly designed administration system and the newly introduced religions faced hardships in snatching the principles of indigenous culture. Therefore, the people retained some aspects of their value system and indigenolls religion.enHistorical SurveySocio-Cultural InteractionThesis