Book
The Konso of Ethiopia: A study of the values of an east Cushitic people
AuthorHouse • Central Milton Keynes • Published In 2008 • Pages:
By: Hallpike, C. R. (Christopher Robert).
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
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.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Location
- Settlement patterns
- Community structure
- Streets and traffic
- Community heads
- Community councils
- Inter-community relations
- Lineages
- Status, role, and prestige
- Priesthood
- Revelation and divination
- Tillage
- Land use
- Water supply
- Territorial hierarchy
- Form and rules of government
- Real property
- Research and development
- Missions
- Acculturation and culture contact
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Konso
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2016
- 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
- Book
- 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.
- 4: Excellent Secondary 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 ; 2015
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1965-1967, 1997
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1500-1997
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Konso Special Woreda, Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' Region, Ethiopia
- NotesAdditional notes
- C. R. Hallpike
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 479-487) and index
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 2007908703
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Konso (African people)