Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource
Series Statement:
eHRAF World Cultures
Keywords:
Amhara (African people)
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Amhara
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Amhara
Abstract:
The Amhara people of the Ethiopian central highlands are one of the two largest ethnic groups in Ethiopia. This file includes fifteen documents, all but one based on research conducted in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. Overall, a more traditional, and rural Amhara culture is portrayed, except for Levine who also discusses modern changes in Amhara culture. Messing's work systematically covers a broad range of culture, circa 1950s, and is the basic source to be consulted. Included in Messing's book is an extensive glossary covering such categories as animals, cultigens, herbs, spirits, and charms. The other works compliment Messing by examining more specific aspects of Amhara culture, such as settlement patterns, political organization, ethnomedicine, land tenure and secretic religious beliefs and practices. Examples and discussions of Amhara representative arts, oral stories and literature are found in Young, Messing, and Assefa, respectively. It is evident that Amhara culture varies geographically, although no one study covers this variability. The post-Haile Selassie period (1975 to present) is not covered in the file
Note:
Culture summary: Amhara - Simon D. Messing and Ian Skoggard - 1998 -- - The Shoan Plateau and its people: an essay in local geography - D. R. Buxton - 1949 -- - Ethiopian folktales ascribed to the late nineteenth century Amhara wit, Aläqa Gäbre-Hanna - Simon D. Messing - 1956 -- - The government of Ethiopia - by Margery Perham - 1948 -- - Wax & gold: tradition and innovation in Ethiopian culture - Donald N. Levine - 1965 -- - Medical beliefs and practices of Begemder Amhara - Allan Louis Young - 1970 [1972 copy] -- - Land tenure among the Amhara of Ethiopia: the dynamics of cognatic descent - Allan Hoben - 1973 -- - The role of ambilineal descent groups in Gojjam Amhara social organization - by Allan Hoben - 1963 -- - Family and property amongst the Amhara nobility - by Donald Crummey - 1983 -- - Dreams in Amharic prose fiction - Taye Assefa - 1988 --
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- Magic as a 'quasi-profession': the organization of magic and magical healing among Amhara - Allan Young - 1975 -- - Varieties of Amhara graphic art - by Allan Young - 1967 -- - Social stratification in traditional Amhara society - by Allan Hoben - 1970 -- - Highland plateau Amhara of Ethiopia - Simon D. Messing ; edited by M. Lionel Bender - 1985 -- - The evil eye belief among the Amhara of Ethiopia - Ronald A. Reminick - 1974 -- - The structure and functions of religious belief among the Amhara of Ethiopia - Ronald A. Reminick - 1975
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