essay
Kafa
Living on the edge: marginalised minorities of craftworkers and hunters in southern Ethiopia • Addis Ababa, Ethiopia • Published In 2001 • Pages: 81-99, 360-375
By: Gezahegn Petros, Freeman, Dena, Pankhurst, Alula.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This document, which was originally published as a book chapter, discusses the lives of submerged occupational castes among the Kaffa of southwestern Ethiopia. The study draws on ethnographic discussion collected from the villages of Shapa and Arara.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Castes
- Cultural identity and pride
- Smiths and their crafts
- Occupational specialization
- Status, role, and prestige
- Work in skins
- Hunting and trapping
- Ethnosociology
- Environmental quality
- Settlement patterns
- Tillage
- Vegetable production
- Domesticated animals
- Inter-ethnic relations
- Slavery
- Chief executive
- Regulation of marriage
- Mode of marriage
- Mythology
- Revelation and divination
- Real property
- Inheritance
- Deliberative councils
- Administrative agencies
- Aftermath of combat
- Eating
- Rest days and holidays
- Organized ceremonial
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Kaffa
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2012
- 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
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Anthropologist
- 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
- Teferi Abate Adem; 2012
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 2000
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1973-2001
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Kaffa, Ethiopia
- NotesAdditional notes
- Gezahegn Petros
- Product of a workshop held in Awassa in 1997
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 360-375)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 2002375487
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Kaffa (African people)