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Initiating change in highland Ethiopia : the causes and consequences of cultural transformation /
"In a rural community in southern Ethiopia, there are two types of rituals performed by the same people. Historical evidence suggests that one has shown remarkable stability over the years, while the other has undergone massive transformations. External factors are the same, so how is this to b...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2002.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "In a rural community in southern Ethiopia, there are two types of rituals performed by the same people. Historical evidence suggests that one has shown remarkable stability over the years, while the other has undergone massive transformations. External factors are the same, so how is this to be explained? Dena Freeman focuses on new ethnographical and historical data from the Gamo Highlands of southern Ethiopia to tackle the question of cultural change and transformation. She uses a comparative perspective and contrasts the continuity in sacrificial rituals with the rapid divergence and differentiation in initiations. Freeman argues that although external change drives internal cultural transformation, the way in which it does is greatly influenced by the structural organisation of the cultural systems themselves. This insight leads to a rethinking of the analytic tension between structure and agency that is at the heart of contemporary anthropological theory."--Jacket |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 180 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-178) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0511177844 9780511177842 0511042809 9780511042805 9780511489525 0511489528 0521818540 9780521818544 9780511054563 0511054564 0511148313 9780511148316 1280434635 9781280434631 9786610434633 6610434638 052103776X 9780521037761 1107135524 9781107135529 0511305273 9780511305276 |