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Seeking out wise old men : six decades of Ethiopian studies at the Frobenius Institute revisited

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Seeking out wise old men : six decades of Ethiopian studies at the Frobenius Institute revisited / Sabine Dinslage, Sophia Thubauville (eds.).

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Berlin : Reimer, 2017.
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319 pages : illustrations, maps, facsimiles; 24 cm.

Summary

From 1935 to 1992, the Frobenius Institute focused on studies in southern Ethiopia. The results of its empirical research are not only of ethnographic, but also historical value since the work was conducted before the Christian proselytization of the local population and the ascendance of the socialist DERG regime. The anthropologists of the Frobenius Institute were among the few researchers to have documented South Ethiopia?s cultural diversity before this change. This publication provides a critical look at the resulting ethnographic studies and renders an overview of Ethiopian studies and the political situation in Ethiopia during those sixty years.

Series Statement

Studien zur Kulturkunde, 0170-3544 ; 131. Band

Uniform Title

Studien zur Kulturkunde ; 131. Bd.

Alternative Title

Six decades of Ethiopian studies at the Frobenius Institute revisited

Subject

Genre/Form

collective biographies.
Biographies.
History.

Note

Includes glossary.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references, glossary, and indexes.

Contents

Acknowledgements -- Karl-Heinz Kohl : Preface -- Sophia Thubauville : Introduction : Six decades of Ethiopian Studies at the Frobenius Institute : Reconstructing Ethiopia's past -- Scientific and Political Environment For Research in Ethiopia Under Three Governments -- Herbert S. Lewis : Anthropology in Ethiopia, 1950s-2016 : a participant's view -- Asfa-Wossen Asserate : Haile Selassie and the Ethiopian modernity -- Ulrich Braukamper : Field research in southern Ethiopia confronted with changing politics of ethnicity -- Itsushi Kawase : Ethnographic filmmaking in Ethiopia : the approach and the film reception -- Southern Ethiopian Studies At The Frobenius Institute : Focuses and Critical Discussion -- Key aspects of Ethiopianist research at the Frobenius Institute -- Susanne Epple : Definite segregation or permeable boundaries? Revisiting the Frobenius research on artisans, hunters and slave descendants in Ethiopia -- Kansite Gellebo : Social divisions and their gradual transformation among the Konso in southern Ethiopia -- Richard Kuba : the Frobenius Institute's study of rock art in Ethiopia -- Critical discussion of theoretical approaches and methodology -- Dirk Bustorf : 'Informants and interpreters' : Partners in the production of knowledge during the Frobenius expeditions in southern Ethiopia -- Jon Abbink : "Wie es eigentlich gewesen..." : Eike Haberland's Rankean approach to southern Ethiopian cultures and its legacy today -- Discussion of the Archival Material on Ethiopian Studies at the Frobenius Institute -- Voices from the archives -- Sabine Dinslage : How to finance an expedition? Insights from the archives of the Frobenius Institute -- Kim Glück : Collection activities of the Frobenius Institute expeditions to southern Ethiopia -- Sophia Thubauville : Involuntary pioneers of ethnographic film in southern Ethiopia -- Reviews of unpublished manuscripts -- Data Dea Barata : Goldmine and minefield : A native anthropologist's review of Eike Haberland's culture-historical research on Wolaita, Ethiopia -- Ambaye Ogato : A cursory reflection on the research of the Frobenius Institute on the Sidama people of Ethiopia -- Getachew Senishaw : The Gedeo : Adolf Ellegard Jensen's ethnographic perspective -- Annexes -- List of contributors -- Biographies of Frobenius Institute members involved in Ethiopian Studies -- Bibliography of publications by Frobenius Institute members on Ethiopia -- Glossary of terms in Ethiopian languages -- Index of persons -- Index of places.

ISBN

9783496015888
3496015888

LCCN

2018373255
9783496015888

OCLC

ocn999769549
999769549
SCSB-8816103

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library