Download or read book Culture and Customs of Ethiopia written by Solomon Addis Getahun and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2014-02-27 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ideal resource for anyone interested in learning about Ethiopia, this accessible, single-volume work provides all-encompassing and up-to-date coverage of the ancient and diverse cultures of Africa's second-most populated nation. Explore the fascinating culture of Ethiopia, a highly diverse nation built on the foundations of ancient kingdoms—truly a melting pot of traditions from Africa as well as other continents. With increasing freedom of speech and growing access to technology, Ethiopians are better able—and more eager—than ever to share ideas, art, and information not only with each other, but with the rest of the world. This detailed volume offers readers informed perspectives on one of the world's oldest populations, covering its long-ago history as well as its evolution in the 21st century. Readers will discover Ethiopa's collection of written and oral stories, unique art and architecture inspired by royalty and religion, delicious cuisine, and many forms of music, dress, and dance. The book's chapters also describe important changes in Ethiopia's social customs, prevalent attitudes regarding women, and the nation's historically oppressive political system.
Download or read book Wax Gold Tradition and Innovation in Ethiopian Culture written by Donald Nathan Levine and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ethiopia Culture Smart written by Culture Smart! and published by Kuperard. This book was released on 2021-03-04 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Don't just see the sights—get to know the people. Set in Africa, but not wholly African; an isolated nation, yet receptive to the outside world; hierarchical and conservative, yet innovative and desirous of modernity; conformist as a people, and fiercely independent as individuals?the Ethiopian identity defies definition. Ethiopia exists simultaneously in different time periods. Its people, when they see something new that might work to their advantage, will embrace it and find ways to improve on it. Modern democracy, however, has understandably been slower to bloom given the strong historical antecedents of its monarchy. Culture Smart! Ethiopia unpacks the values, attitudes, and traditions of this culturally rich nation. Etiquette in daily life, socializing, and communicating are all helpfully described, and advice is given to on how make the most of a visit. Above all, it provides the tools to do so in a considerate and sensitive manner. Have a richer and more meaningful experience abroad through a better understanding of the local culture. Chapters on history, values, attitudes, and traditions will help you to better understand your hosts, while tips on etiquette and communicating will help you to navigate unfamiliar situations and avoid faux pas.
Download or read book Wax and Gold written by Donald N Levine and published by . This book was released on 1986-06-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ethiopia Culture Smart written by Sarah Howard and published by Kuperard. This book was released on 2011-01-04 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Culture Smart! provides essential information on attitudes, beliefs and behavior in different countries, ensuring that you arrive at your destination aware of basic manners, common courtesies, and sensitive issues. These concise guides tell you what to expect, how to behave, and how to establish a rapport with your hosts. This inside knowledge will enable you to steer clear of embarrassing gaffes and mistakes, feel confident in unfamiliar situations, and develop trust, friendships, and successful business relationships. Culture Smart! offers illuminating insights into the culture and society of a particular country. It will help you to turn your visit-whether on business or for pleasure-into a memorable and enriching experience. Contents include: * customs, values, and traditions * historical, religious, and political background * life at home * leisure, social, and cultural life * eating and drinking * dos, don'ts, and taboos * business practices * communication, spoken and unspoken "Culture Smart has come to the rescue of hapless travellers." Sunday Times Travel "... the perfect introduction to the weird, wonderful and downright odd quirks and customs of various countries." Global Travel "...full of fascinating-as well as common-sense-tips to help you avoid embarrassing faux pas." Observer "...as useful as they are entertaining." Easyjet Magazine "...offer glimpses into the psyche of a faraway world." New York Times
Download or read book Ethiopia written by Siegbert Uhlig and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2017-10 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ETHIOPIA is a compendium on Ethiopia and Northeast Africa for travellers, students, businessmen, people interested in Africa, policymakers and organisations. In this book 85 specialists from 15 countries write about the land of our fossil ancestor `Lucy', about its rock-hewn churches and national parks, about the coexistence of Christians and Muslims, and about strange cultures, but also about contemporary developments and major challenges to the region. Across ten chapters they describe the land and people, its history, cultures, religions, society and politics, as well as recent issues and unique destinations, documented with tables, maps, further reading suggestions and photos.
Download or read book Ethiopia Culture Smart written by Sarah Howard and published by Culture Smart!. This book was released on 2021-03-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ethiopia is an illuminating and practical guide to Ethiopian culture and society. It will help you turn your visit - whether it's for business or for pleasure - into a memorable and enriching experience. Contents Include local customs and traditions, the impact of history, religion, and politics, the Ethiopians at home, work, and play, eating and drinking, Ethiopian style, dos, don'ts, and taboos, business practices, communication, spoken and unspoken and many practical tips for managing the unexpected. Book jacket.
Download or read book Wax and Gold written by Donald Nathan Levine and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ethiopia written by and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-12-20 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A monolithic collection of images captured by photographer Joey L. over the course of thirteen years with the support of his dedicated Ethiopian crew. "Joey L.’s Ethiopia book is a true love letter to my home country of Ethiopia, the land of milk and honey. His imagery does a beautiful job of capturing the diversity of the country and culture. The astonishing landscapes, beautiful people, and vibrant culture. It can all be found all here in this book. Looking at the images, I can't wait to go back to my motherland." - Marcus Samuelsson, Acclaimed chef, Author, and Restaurateur Ethiopia: A Photographic Tribute to East Africa's Diverse Cultures & Traditions is a visual ode to every region of the country and a celebration of all the diverse peoples found within. This highly anticipated volume includes both the iconic landmarks and landscapes found exclusively within Ethiopia, and regions that are lesser known to tourists and travellers. From the cosmopolitan hub of Addis Ababa famous for its Ethiopian Jazz, to the hinterlands of the Gambela region, where the Majang people climb trees over 150 feet tall to collect wild honey. From the north’s Orthodox Tewahedo historic sites, to the Islamic influence spread across the east within Afar and Somali communities, to the Animist spiritualities of the southern nations. The book is a first of its kind—underscoring what makes each region of Ethiopia unique, yet uniting all in one cohesive visual style. Every walk of life is dignified in their own unique way. The flow of the collection is guided by immersive environmental images, landscapes, and classic still life. Interspersed into the narrative are thoughtful portraits, all photographed within the same “nomadic studio tent” the team built and took across the country. The portraits have a familiarity that only a decade of commitment to a single project can produce. The subjects are introduced by name. One spread of the book shows the same girl, Gure, photographed nearly ten years apart. On the book cover is a rare portrait of Fentale and Woday, two Kereyu men who travel to the market once a week to trade camels and try to meet potential wives with their carefully crafted hairstyles. There is Captain Amsale, a charismatic pilot of Ethiopian Airlines—the first to fly internationally with an all-female flight crew. Deeper within the book, we meet Mories, one of the last remaining subsistence crocodile hunters of the Dassanach, whose nomadic existence is kept alive by following the legends of their ancestors. These seemingly disconnected cultural threads are woven together masterfully in order to truly see Ethiopia—which itself is the sum of all the diverse lands and the proud people who inhabit it. 300+ COLOR PHOTOGRAPHS: Hundreds of intimate fine art photographs capture the diverse people and landscapes of Ethiopia and East Africa. STUNNING LANDSCAPES: Joey captures distinct—and often overlooked—natural features of Ethiopia's interior, from its vast deserts, sprawling mountain ranges, and dense forests. VIBRANT CITIES: Scenes from cities like Addis Ababa reveal a vibrant energy, alight with jazz clubs, musicians, youth culture, and so much more. DIVERSE CULTURES: Visually explore the Orthodox Tewahedo historic sites, see the Islamic influence on the Afar and Somali communities, and experience the Animist spiritualities of the southern nations.
Download or read book Wax and Gold written by Donald Levine and published by Tsehai Publishers. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique interpretation of Ethiopian society uses the tools of history, sociology, anthropology, and psychology to examine three main questions: What is the nature of the traditional culture of the Amhara, and what are its enduring values and beliefs? What aspects of modern culture interest this society and by means has it sought to institutionalize them? How does tradition both facilitate and impede Ethiopian efforts to modernization? Using the insights and the tools of several disciplines, Professor Donald Levine looks on Amhara culture as history, as an outlook on life, a way of growing up, a social structure, a kind of psychological orientation, and, finally, as a ?combination of opposites.? With acuity and sensitivity he describes the strains upon the traditional culture made by the needs for modernization and the problems which face young and old in making this rapid transition.The author has found one key to Ethiopian society in its poetry, where the ?wax? is the obvious meaning, the ?gold? the hidden meaning. He finds reflections of this ambiguity at all levels of Ethiopian culture and holds that an appreciation of it is essential to understanding the problems facing Ethiopians in their movement toward modernization and their unique role among African nations. Since its first publication, forty years ago, Wax and Gold has became a basic source for the studies of Ethiopia and a provocative model for the study of African and other modernizing nations.
Download or read book Oral Traditions in Ethiopian Studies written by Dirk Bustorf and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ethiopia The Land Its People History and Culture written by Yohannes K. Mekonnen, Editor and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-01-31 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a general survey of Ethiopia as a country and its people. It focuses on many subjects about Ethiopia's history, geography, politics, ethnic groups and their cultures. The book also covers Eritrea - its people, history and culture - but the main focus of the book is on Ethiopia.
Download or read book Tradition and Transformation written by Abebe Kifleyesus and published by Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. This book was released on 2006 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Argobba are an ethnic and religious minority in southeastern Wallo and northeastern Sawa. Despite living in harsh environments and menace from more dominant ethnic groups, they have for centuries maintained their agricultural activity, trader and weaver identity, and religious unity.At present they are undergoing rapid cultural change, and are caught up in a tension between encapsulation and the struggle for the survival of Argobba cultural tradition and political position in what once was a strategic location. This book presents a perceptive historical and cultural analysis of change and continuity, looks at how the Argobba define and redefine their agricultural and commercial ways of living as a response to threats from Oromo migration, Amhara settler penetration and Adal aggression, and examines the past and present condition of Argobba social and economic transformation in north-central Ethiopia.
Download or read book Wax Gold written by Donald N. Levine and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Exotic Ethiopian Cooking written by Daniel Jote Mesfin and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: EXOTIC ETHIOPIAN COOKING the first definitive comprehensive cookbook devoted to Ethiopian food is a product of four years research & test. It has now been revised & extended. It tells how to prepare & serve each dish its full flavor & enable you, your family & friends to savor every succulent morsel. In EXOTIC ETHIOPIAN COOKING Mr. Mesfin, a worshiper of his native dish, brings to your table the secrets of fine Ethiopian cooking in 178 recipes covering from how to prepare basic ingredients & a wide range of mean, chicken, fish, vegetables, bread, alcoholic & non alcoholic beverages in 310 pages of easy to follow directions. Many of the most popular dishes are shown in full colors, to help you appreciate their beauty as well as their flavor. The section on society, culture, hospitality, traditions & the food composition tables will fascinate & enlighten people from all walks of life from the social & nutritional aspect of the ancient traditions. EXOTIC ETHIOPIAN COOKING is indispensable to anyone who has had the privilege of sampling Ethiopian food & knows that there are a thousand & one delights to be found in it & to those who have not had the glorious opportunity & have missed culinary pleasures that have excited the palates of diners for centuries.
Download or read book Foods of Ethiopia written by Barbara Sheen and published by Greenhaven Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2007-12-03 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Founded in 980 B.C., Ethiopia is one of the oldest nations in the world. Serve your readers with a delectable blend of geography, history, health, daily life, celebrations, and customs of Ethiopia. While executing authentic kid-friendly recipes, readers will learn about Ethiopia by way of its foods, cooking traditions, customs, eating habits, and food sources. Readers start with the basics, then learn about favorite foods, coffees, and snacks, then enjoy a rich look at special occasion recipes.
Download or read book Wax and gold tradition and innovation in Ethiopian culture Chic Univ written by Donald Nathan Levine and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
