Wax and Gold: Tradition and Innovation in Ethiopian Culture
ISBN-13:
9781599070032
ISBN-10:
1599070030
Author:
Donald N. Levine
Publication date:
2007
Publisher:
Tsehai Publishers
Format:
Paperback
315 pages
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ISBN-13:
9781599070032
ISBN-10:
1599070030
Author:
Donald N. Levine
Publication date:
2007
Publisher:
Tsehai Publishers
Format:
Paperback
315 pages
Summary
Wax and Gold: Tradition and Innovation in Ethiopian Culture (ISBN-13: 9781599070032 and ISBN-10: 1599070030), written by authors
Donald N. Levine, was published by Tsehai Publishers in 2007.
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This unique interpretation of Ethiopian society uses the tools of history, sociology, anthropology, and psychology to examine three main questions: What is the nature of the traditional culture of the Amhara, and what are its enduring values and beliefs? What aspects of modern culture interest this society and by means has it sought to institutionalize them? How does tradition both facilitate and impede Ethiopian efforts to modernization? Using the insights and the tools of several disciplines, Professor Donald Levine looks on Amhara culture as history, as an outlook on life, a way of growing up, a social structure, a kind of psychological orientation, and, finally, as a combination of opposites. With acuity and sensitivity he describes the strains upon the traditional culture made by the needs for modernization and the problems which face young and old in making this rapid transition. The author has found one key to Ethiopian society in its poetry, where the wax is the obvious meaning, the gold the hidden meaning. He finds reflections of this ambiguity at all levels of Ethiopian culture and holds that an appreciation of it is essential to understanding the problems facing Ethiopians in their movement toward modernization and their unique role among African nations. Since its first publication, forty years ago, Wax and Gold has became a basic source for the studies of Ethiopia and a provocative model for the study of African and other modernizing nations.
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