Sidaama

Adolf Ellegard Jensen, Anbessa Teferra Teferra (Editor), Sophia Thubauville (Editor)

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Abstract

The ethnography of the Sidaama people of southern Ethiopia by A. E. Jensen, Elisabeth Pauli and Helmut Straube goes back to their research expedition to Sidaama in 1954/55. Following their research trip, they drafted the present work, which they did not publish. It is a classic ethnography divided into the following chapters: Land and people, social life, religious life, course of life, and oral traditions. The ethnography is illustrated by photographs from the archives of the Frobenius Institute. Adolf Ellegard Jensen (1899 - 1965) was director of the Anthropological Museum in Frankfurt and hold a full professorship at the Institute for Social Anthropology at Goethe University Frankfurt and the directorship of the Frobenius Institute (1946 - 65).
Original languageEnglish
Place of PublicationBerlin
Number of pages268
Edition1st
ISBN (Electronic)9783643963123
StatePublished - 2022

Publication series

NameSouthern Ethiopian Studies at the Frobenius Institute Series
PublisherLIT Verlag
Volumev.2

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