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Wax and Gold: Tradition and Innovation in Ethiopian Culture
Donald N. Levine
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Description for Wax and Gold: Tradition and Innovation in Ethiopian Culture
Paperback. Intends to seek answers to the following questions: What is the nature of the traditional culture of the dominant ethnic group, the Amhara, and what are its enduring values? What aspects of modern culture interest this society and by what means has it sought to institutionalize them? Num Pages: 350 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables. BIC Classification: 1HFGA; 3JJ; HBJH; HBLW; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 154 x 20. Weight in Grams: 548.
In Abyssinian poetry, the "wax" is the obvious meaning, the "gold" is the hidden meaning. In Wax and Gold, Donald N. Levine explores mid-to-late-twentieth-century Ethiopian society on the same two levels, using modern sociology and psychology to seek answers to the following questions: What is the nature of the traditional culture of the dominant ethnic group, the Amhara, and what are its enduring values? What aspects of modern culture interest this society and by what means has it sought to institutionalize them? How has tradition both facilitated and hampered Ethiopian efforts to modernize? Enriched by the use of Ethiopian literature ... Read more
In Abyssinian poetry, the "wax" is the obvious meaning, the "gold" is the hidden meaning. In Wax and Gold, Donald N. Levine explores mid-to-late-twentieth-century Ethiopian society on the same two levels, using modern sociology and psychology to seek answers to the following questions: What is the nature of the traditional culture of the dominant ethnic group, the Amhara, and what are its enduring values? What aspects of modern culture interest this society and by what means has it sought to institutionalize them? How has tradition both facilitated and hampered Ethiopian efforts to modernize? Enriched by the use of Ethiopian literature ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Weight
547g
Number of Pages
350
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226215440
SKU
V9780226215440
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About Donald N. Levine
Donald N. Levine is the Peter B. Ritzma Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago, where he served as dean of the College from 1982 to 1987. He is the author of several books, including Greater Ethiopia: The Evolution of a Multiethnic Society and Powers of the Mind: The Reinvention of Liberal Learning in America, both published by the ... Read more
Reviews for Wax and Gold: Tradition and Innovation in Ethiopian Culture
"A superb book." (New Yorker) "Ethiopia's abiding problem is the symbiosis of her autochthonous civilization with the demands of an uncompromising modern world.... Nobody has yet described the dilemma, its origin, its magnitude and possible ways of resolving it with greater ability and understanding." (Times Literary Supplement)"