Book
Dialectics of divine 'kingship' in the Kafa highlands
African Studies Center, University of California • (15) • Published In 1976 • Pages: 57 , [1] leaf of plates
By: Lange, Werner J..
Abstract
This document explains the nature and structure of Kaffa kingship. It argues that the divine nature of the Kaffa king should be explained not in the religious ideology that portrays him as the incarnation of the spirits of the sky-god. It should instead be discussed as an irrational expression of ordinary peoples’ rational need for rain, crops, health, and security.
- Subjects
- Cultural identity and pride
- Form and rules of government
- Chief executive
- Deliberative councils
- Status, role, and prestige
- Traditional history
- Linguistic identification
- Settlement patterns
- Inter-ethnic relations
- Slavery
- Basis of marriage
- Mythology
- Cosmology
- Revelation and divination
- Prayers and sacrifices
- Magic
- Animism
- Sacred objects and places
- Arranging a marriage
- Eating
- Organized ceremonial
- Executive household
- Ethnic stratification
- Classes
- Castes
- culture
- Kaffa
- HRAF PubDate
- 2012
- Region
- Africa
- Sub Region
- Eastern Africa
- Document Type
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- Teferi Abate Adem; 2012
- Field Date
- 1972-1973
- Coverage Date
- 1390-1976
- Coverage Place
- Kaffa, Ethiopia
- Notes
- Werner Lange
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 47-57)
- LCSH
- Kaffa (African people)--Kings and rulers
- Cults--Ethiopia