Initiating Change in Highland Ethiopia
Subtitle: Causes and Consequences of Cultural Transformation
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: July 19, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 190
ISBN-13: 9780521037761
Subjects: Social & cultural anthropology; Social Science; Archaeology / Anthropology; Sociology; Ethiopia; Anthropology - Cultural; Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural; Social Science / Anthropology / General; Anthropology - General; Gamo Highlands; Initiation rites; Sacrifice; Social change
First sentence: In a remote part of southern Ethiopia there is a small farming community which has two forms of politico-ritual organisation.