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Varieties of Amhara graphic art
Expedition • 9 (4) • Published In 1967 • Pages: 2-11
By: Young, Allan Louis.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a brief, popular magazine article on Amhara Church painting, occult drawing, and tattooing. The Byzantine-style Church paintings depict biblical scenes and persons, episodes from the lives of the saints, and the history of the Church. Painting employs various conventions such as designating the relative status and goodness of persons by their relative size, and depicting evil persons only in profile. Occult drawings are sewn into leather amulets and used as protective talismans. Whereas both of the above art forms are the products of ecclesiastics, tattooing is the product of laywomen for prophylactic, therapeutic, or cosmetic purposes. The article includes copies of eleven paintings and four photos: a castle, cleric, man wearing an amulet,and tattooed woman.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Body alterations
- Representative art
- Sacred objects and places
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Amhara
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1998
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Africa
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Eastern Africa
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Ian Skoggard ; 1996
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1966
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1960s
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Gondar town, Ethiopia
- NotesAdditional notes
- by Allan Young
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 66096352
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Amhara (African people)