Amhara Traditions of Knowledge

2001
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Publisher : Otto Harrassowitz Verlag

ISBN-13 : 9783447044103

Page : 270 pages

Rating : 4.5/5 from 103 voters

Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral--Universitetet i Trondheim, 1994) under the title: "Spirits, mediums and human worlds: the Amahara peasants of the north Ethiopian highlands and their traditions ..."

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