The conundrum calling for deciphering: Cultural Riddles in Ethiopia - Softcover

Zewdie, Mindaralew

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3639359445 ISBN 13: 9783639359442

Publisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, 2011

Synopsis

Mindaralew has plumbed the depths of puzzling layers surrounding cultural riddles that are associated with the month of May. It is a month in which people altogether drop some of their major social practices, ceremonies, political and economic activities and attitudes and get engaged in a new category of practices only as long as the very month lasts. Once the month of May is gone so are the sanctions imposed on the said major activities. The author, Mindaralew, probed into the mound of these cultural brain-teasers in a bid to bring them to the attention of the wider readership . He lucidly argued to show whether these widely practiced changes of behavior remain, as it appears at first sight, a cultural manifestations of an irrational, illogical facades of the people; or have something inherently rational, intelligible, and logical which lies underneath the mosaic of cultural settings of the people.

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About the Author

Mindaralew Zewdie has been a lecturer of luminiferous magnitude in a wide gamut of walks in life that runs the spectrum from Aristotelian logic through to the phenomenology of the mind of G.F.W. Hegel , and from L.H. Morgan's Evolutionism all the way to contemporary anthropological theories.

Edition details

• Publisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Müller
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3639359445
• ISBN 13: 9783639359442
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 88