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Fascinating insight into cultural change and transformation in a rural community in Southern Ethiopia. Two types of ritual are performed by the same people: one has remained stable, while the other has been transformed. In this 2002 book, Dena Freeman focuses on ethnographical and historical data to analyse how this can occur.

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"This is an elegant account of an extended rural community in southern Ethiopia." African Studies Review

Table of Contents
List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Select glossary; 1. Introduction: theorising change; 2. The recent history of the Gamo Highlands; 3. Production and reproduction; 4. The sacrificial system; 5. The initiatory system; 6. Experiencing change; 7. Assemblies and incremental cultural change; 8. Transformation versus devolution: the organisational dynamics of change; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

Initiating Change in Highland Ethiopia

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      Publisher Cambridge University Press
      Published 7/19/2007 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN-13 9780521037761
      978-0521037761
      ISBN-10 052103776X
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Fascinating insight into cultural change and transformation in a rural community in Southern Ethiopia. Two types of ritual are performed by the same people: one has remained stable, while the other has been transformed. In this 2002 book, Dena Freeman focuses on ethnographical and historical data to analyse how this can occur.

      Trade Review
      "This is an elegant account of an extended rural community in southern Ethiopia." African Studies Review

      Table of Contents
      List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Select glossary; 1. Introduction: theorising change; 2. The recent history of the Gamo Highlands; 3. Production and reproduction; 4. The sacrificial system; 5. The initiatory system; 6. Experiencing change; 7. Assemblies and incremental cultural change; 8. Transformation versus devolution: the organisational dynamics of change; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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