TY - JOUR
T1 - Spices for thought
T2 - Salt, chili pepper, and slaves in Ethiopian Amharic proverbs
AU - Salamon, Hagar
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - Even though slavery-related understandings are deeply embedded in the collective Ethiopian consciousness, they are seldom explicitly discussed. In the course of oral interviews carried out in rural northwestern Ethiopia with elderly men and women who still recall the practice of slavery, a rich corpus of Amharic proverbs related to this topic was collected. Focusing on a specifijic segment of this corpus, I invite the reader to visit Ethiopian folkloric crossroads of slaves and salt, spiced up with some hot chili pepper. These proverbs are revealed as a powerful channel to tap into generally submerged and rarely discussed local slavery-related perceptions.
AB - Even though slavery-related understandings are deeply embedded in the collective Ethiopian consciousness, they are seldom explicitly discussed. In the course of oral interviews carried out in rural northwestern Ethiopia with elderly men and women who still recall the practice of slavery, a rich corpus of Amharic proverbs related to this topic was collected. Focusing on a specifijic segment of this corpus, I invite the reader to visit Ethiopian folkloric crossroads of slaves and salt, spiced up with some hot chili pepper. These proverbs are revealed as a powerful channel to tap into generally submerged and rarely discussed local slavery-related perceptions.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85057061630&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.14321/nortafristud.17.2.0101
DO - 10.14321/nortafristud.17.2.0101
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AN - SCOPUS:85057061630
SN - 0740-9133
VL - 17
SP - 101
EP - 130
JO - Northeast African Studies
JF - Northeast African Studies
IS - 2
ER -
