as to why i was a philologist, historian, anthropologist, and archaeologist all at the same time, to study ethiopia properly, you have to be all these things, rather like how most archaeologists are also linguists who read at least five languages (including modern english, german, french, and italian, languages in which many archaeological texts are written).  to study ethiopia properly, you need to know ethnography (anthropology), history of course (since it is an ancient civilization), philology (since ethiopia has an ancient written language and many old christian texts), and archaeology, since the material culture of ethiopia provides so many clues as to the ethiopian mindset over the eons.
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