A Contextual Reading of Ethiopian Crosses through Form and Ritual
| Autor: | Jacopo Gnisci |
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| Jazyk: | němčina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Linguistics and Language
Archeology History Literature and Literary Theory ddc:700 media_common.quotation_subject Population ddc:200 Ethiopian art P1-1091 Representation (arts) Language and Linguistics Style (sociolinguistics) GN301-674 art history Reading (process) morphology Sociology education Set (psychology) Historical dimension Philology. Linguistics media_common ddc:730 education.field_of_study Religious studies Epistemology Ethnology. Social and cultural anthropology Philosophy style symbolism Christian Ethiopian tradition Anthropology Research questions use of crosses ddc:390 |
| Zdroj: | Aethiopica, Vol 23 (2021) Aethiopica; Bd. 23 (2020); 256–268 Aethiopica; Vol. 23 (2020); 256–268 |
| ISSN: | 2194-4024 1430-1938 |
| DOI: | 10.15460/aethiopica.23.0 |
| Popis: | Maria Evangelatou’s book promises to explore new research questions and challenge Eurocentric approaches to Ethiopian crosses by presenting an analysis of their use and significance among the Christian orthodox population of Ethiopia. Unfortunately, the study fails to deliver on this promise due to a lack of direct engagement with Ethiopian voices and the relevant literature, and a reliance on publications that focus on noncontemporary or non-Ethiopian contexts. This lack of engagement with Christian Ethiopians leads to significant misinterpretations. Moreover, by adopting an approach to Ethiopian sources that fails to recognize the existence of significant shifts within the Ethiopian literary tradition, the author flattens Ethiopia’s historical dimension, and thus unintentionally reproduces the kind of Eurocentric representation of the country that she set out to challenge. |
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