ABSTRACT This article analyzes contests among Ethiopian and British imperial agents and their ostensible Somali (and other Muslim) subjects for control over commerce in the Ethiopia-British Somaliland borderlands. British claims of sovereignty over Somalis and other Muslim merchants operating in Ethiopia created a field of hybrid commercial control in which neither Britons nor Ethiopians held complete dominance. Competition to capture borderlands commerce focused on Jigjiga town as a site where Ethiopian rule and British-backed trade mixed. Amidst crises of warfare and famine in the countryside and the growth of a cash economy shaped by this imperial conjuncture, Jigjiga grew in importance as a site of accumulation and (especially for Somalis) of cultural transformations in understandings of commerce and its relation to political authority. Hybrid commercial sovereignty tended to separate the military-administrative authority of the empires on either side of the border from the Muslim-dominated field of trans-border commercial control, shaping links between ethno-religious identity and fields of power.

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帝国边境的首都：埃塞俄比亚-英国索马里兰边界上的城市化，市场和力量。1890–1935年

摘要本文分析了埃塞俄比亚和英国帝国特工及其表面上的索马里人（和其他穆斯林人）之间为争夺埃塞俄比亚-英国索马里兰边界地区的贸易而进行的争夺。英国对索马里人和在埃塞俄比亚开展业务的其他穆斯林商人拥有主权的主张创造了一个混合商业控制领域，英国人和埃塞俄比亚人都没有完全控制这一领域。夺取边疆地区贸易的竞争主要集中在Jigjiga镇，那里是埃塞俄比亚统治和英国支持的贸易混在一起的地方。在农村战争和饥荒的危机以及由帝国制塑造的现金经济的增长中，Jigjiga作为积累场所和（特别是对索马里人而言）文化变迁的重要性日益提高，以了解商业及其与政治权威的关系。