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. Home Wax and Gold. Interpreting Ethiopia Author : Donald N. Greater Ethiopia Author : Donald N. Wolaitta Evangelists Author : E.
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Sign up here for updates about the Press. Save Cover Preview for Wax and Gold. Buy this book : Wax and Gold. 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? Nobody has yet described the dilemma, its origin, its magnitude and possible ways of resolving it with greater ability and understanding.
Not to be missed. With remarkable freedom, virtuosity, and success [Levine] forays from his own base as a sociologist into the domains of anthropologists, psychologists, historians, and linguists. Back to top.
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