%0 Book
%T Konso of Ethiopia: A study of the values of an east Cushitic people
%A Hallpike, C. R. (Christopher Robert)
%D 2008
%I AuthorHouse
%C Central Milton Keynes
%@ 9781434330314
%G English
%F mp17-004
%O C. R. Hallpike
%O LOC search performed 14 June 2013; requested via BD; reviewed by MAS 10/9/14page and doc range corrected LGD March 2016
%O Includes bibliographical references (p. 479-487) and index
%X This book examines the ways traditional Konso values gave coherence to their social institutions and religious rituals. Emphasis on the values of communal life and masculinity led to the continuity of a unique settlement pattern consisting of compact, stone walled towns situated atop extensively terraced hills. In each town, one finds not just individual homesteads and wards, but also well cared for communal ritual spaces and men’s houses, together with clusters of standing stones and anthropomorphic wooden grave figures commemorating battles and hometown veterans.
%K Konso (African people)
%K Konso
%K Location
%K Settlement patterns
%K Community structure
%K Streets and traffic
%K Community heads
%K Community councils
%K Inter-community relations
%K Lineages
%K Status, role, and prestige
%K Priesthood
%K Revelation and divination
%K Tillage
%K Land use
%K Water supply
%K Territorial hierarchy
%K Form and rules of government
%K Real property
%K Research and development
%K Missions
%K Acculturation and culture contact
%9 bibliographic
%U https://ehrafworldcultures.yale.edu/document?id=mp17-004
%[ 2022-07-01