Burji vocabulary of cultural items: an insight into Burji culture, based on the field notes of Helmut Straube

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Title:	Burji vocabulary of cultural items: an insight into Burji culture, based on the field notes of Helmut Straube
Authors:	Amborn, Hermann Kellner, Alexander
Year:	1999
Periodical:	Afrikanistische Arbeitspapiere: Schriftenreihe des Kölner Instituts für Afrikanistik
Issue:	58
Pages:	5-67
Language:	English
Geographic term:	Ethiopia
Subjects:	Burji anthropology Cushitic languages dictionaries (form)
Abstract:	The Burji, whose original homeland is situated on the eastern side of Ethiopia's Rift Valley, are agriculturalists and speak an East Cushitic language also called Burji. The most important anthropological fieldwork on the Burji was carried out by the late Helmut Straube (d. 1984) in 1955 and 1973-1974. The present publication is based on his unpublished notes. It consists of an ethnographic vocabulary which describes specific features of Burji culture by means of the associated terminology. The vocabulary proper is preceded by some notes on Burji social organization and religion, agriculture and linguistics. Bibliogr., notes, ref.