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Title:Ethiopian images of self and other
Editor:Girke, FelixISNI
Year:2014
Issue:2
Pages:226
Language:English
Series:Schriften des Zentrums für Interdisziplinäre Regionalstudien
City of publisher:Halle
Publisher:Universitätsverlag Halle-Wittenberg
Geographic term:Ethiopia
Subjects:stereotypes
images
cultural pluralism
ethnic relations
Abstract:This book provides examples of images and stereotypes from Ethiopia, and analyses them in a non-judgmental manner. It traces cultural imagery to its emergence and shows its means of persistence. It shows the variability and the work of imagery in Ethiopia, as it reproduces and sometimes subverts power relations between various 'selves' and 'others'. As nation-building cannot be considered complete in Ethiopia, this book provides some groundwork for better understanding the social dynamics of Ethiopia's cultural diversity. Contents: Ethiopian images of self and other: essays on identification and stereotype (Felix Girke); Ethiopian stereotypes: changing perceptions over the millennia (Richard Pankhurst); From empire to airport: on antika-painting in Addis Ababa of the 1930s (Jörg Weinerth); Human self and animal other: the favorite animal among the Hamar (Jérôme Dubosson); Songs of self and others in times of rapid change: music as identification among the Arbore of southern Ethiopia (Echi Gabbert); Images of Mursi women and the realities they reveal and conceal (Shauna LaTosky); Metaphors of the Moguji: self-defining othering in Kara political speech (Felix Girke); The pure, the real, and the chosen: the encounter between the Anywaa, the Nuer, and the Highlanders in Gambella (Dereje Feyissa); Christianity and the King, matrimony and marijuana: icons of the unresolved Ethiopian relationship with Rastafari (Erin C. MacLeod); Afterword (Ivo Strecker). [ASC Leiden abstract]