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Seniority through ancestral landscapes: Community archaeology in the highlands of southern Ethiopia

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Kathryn Weedman Arthur John Arthur

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2017

Abstract

This article focuses on our collaboration with the Boreda of southern Ethiopia to document the ways in which their cultural heritage knowledge is entwined with Ochollo Mulato, one of their nine tangible senior ancestral landscapes or Bayira Deriya. Through the interface between oral traditions, life histories, and the archaeological record, we grew increasingly aware of the descendant community’s wide range of alternative but equally valid memories and attachments to their ancestral lands. Articulated through the landscape at Ochollo Mulato, Boreda demonstrated to us the various historical paths for defending assertions of seniority between youths and elders and between farmers and craft-specialists.

Publisher

Journal of Community Archaeology & Heritage

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