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.
Abstract
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.
- Subjects
- 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
- culture
- Kaffa
- HRAF PubDate
- 2012
- Region
- Africa
- Sub Region
- Eastern Africa
- Document Type
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Anthropologist
- Document Rating
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- Teferi Abate Adem; 2012
- Field Date
- 2000
- Coverage Date
- 1973-2001
- Coverage Place
- Kaffa, Ethiopia
- Notes
- Gezahegn Petros
- Product of a workshop held in Awassa in 1997
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 360-375)
- LCCN
- 2002375487
- LCSH
- Kaffa (African people)