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Topography and Geology

Fauna

Human Effects on Environment

Inheritance

Age Stratification

Gender Status

Family Relationships

Lineages

Dwellings

Outbuildings

Public Structures

Settlement Patterns

Household

Community Structure

Community Councils

Inter-Community Relations

Towns

Work in Skins

Woven and Other Interworked Fabrics

Woodworking

Ceramic Technology

Smiths and Their Crafts

Furniture

Division of Labor by Gender

Occupational Specialization

Castes

Nuptials

Recruitment and Training

Burial Practices and Funerals

Mythology

Sacred Objects and Places

Prayers and Sacrifices

Purification and Atonement

Ritual

Organized Ceremonial

Domesticated Animals

Poultry Raising

Tillage

Agricultural Science

Cereal Agriculture

Vegetable Production

Arboriculture

Textile Agriculture

Special Crops

Diet

Land Use

General Tools

Grandparents and Grandchildren

Childhood Activities

Techniques of Socialization

Adolescent Activities

Real Property

Buying and Selling

Production and Supply

Internal Trade

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Social Personality

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Weapons

Ingroup Antagonisms

Offenses Against Life

Warfare

Aftermath of Combat

Peacemaking

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Status, Role, and Prestige

Elections

Judicial Authority

Priesthood

Religious Intolerance and Martyrs

Material Not Relevant

Regulation of Marriage

Mode of Marriage

Arranging a Marriage

Termination of Marriage

Special Unions and Marriages

Residence

Polygamy

Cousins

Accumulation of Wealth

Kin Relationships

Clans

Social Control

Sorcery

Population

Composition of Population

Property Offenses

Initiation of Judicial Proceedings

Special Courts

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Traditional History

History

Acculturation and Culture Contact

Medium of Exchange

Form and Rules of Government

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Bibliographies in Sources

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Cult of the Dead

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Cosmology

Animism

Eschatology

Spirits and Gods

Revelation and Divination

Magic

Activities of the Aged

Magicians and Diviners

Congregations

Ordering of Time

Reviews and Critiques

Pharmaceuticals

Preventive Medicine

Linguistic Identification

Kinship Terminology

Culture Summary: Konso

ETHNONYMS

ORIENTATION

HISTORY AND CULTURAL RELATIONS

SETTLEMENTS

ECONOMY

KINSHIP

MARRIAGE AND FAMILY

SOCIOPOLITICAL ORGANIZATION

RELIGION AND EXPRESSIVE CULTURE

CREDITS

IDENTIFICATION AND LOCATION

DEMOGRAPHY

LINGUISTIC AFFILIATION

SUBSISTENCE

INDUSTRIAL ARTS

TRADE

DIVISION OF LABOR

LAND TENURE

KIN GROUPS AND DESCENT

KINSHIP TERMINOLOGY

MARRIAGE

DOMESTIC UNIT

INHERITANCE

SOCIALIZATION

SOCIAL ORGANIZATION

POLITICAL ORGANIZATION

SOCIAL CONTROL

CONFLICT

RELIGIOUS BELIEFS

RELIGIOUS PRACTITIONERS

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The Konso of southwestern Ethiopia are a Cushitic-speaking people living in densely populated stone-walled towns, often on the summits of hills or at other easily defensible sites. They are intensive agriculturists, using animal and human manure, and terracing. The traditional Konso ethos emphasizes communal life and masculinity reflected, in part, by collectively maintained ritual spaces, and by men’s houses decorated with clusters of stone stelae and anthropomorphic wood sculptures commemorating idealized images of war heroes, famous ancestors and lineage heads.

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