TY - JOUR
KW - Twentieth-century
KW - Traditions
KW - Social history
KW - Mendicancy
KW - leprosy
KW - Lalibela
KW - Hamina
KW - Ethiopia
KW - Charity
AU - Kebede MT
AB - The Hamina are a group of people who are practicing song-mendicancy in order
to ward off debilitating physical impacts of leprosy coming down from a legendary leper
ancestor. Leprosy is an age-old scourge of humanity with an unrestrained power of shaping
human identities including identities in Ethiopia. Its age-old prevalence, mysterious pathology
and dreadful physical impacts helped leprosy to secure a special place in the Ethiopian traditions
throughout history. This paper intends to examine the social history of the Hamina with
parallel evaluations of medical, social, economic, political and cultural changes that occurred
in twentieth-century Ethiopia.
BT - African Study Monographs
CN - MESELE 2010
IS - Suppl.
LA - eng
N2 - The Hamina are a group of people who are practicing song-mendicancy in order
to ward off debilitating physical impacts of leprosy coming down from a legendary leper
ancestor. Leprosy is an age-old scourge of humanity with an unrestrained power of shaping
human identities including identities in Ethiopia. Its age-old prevalence, mysterious pathology
and dreadful physical impacts helped leprosy to secure a special place in the Ethiopian traditions
throughout history. This paper intends to examine the social history of the Hamina with
parallel evaluations of medical, social, economic, political and cultural changes that occurred
in twentieth-century Ethiopia.
PY - 2010
SP - 63
EP - 79
T2 - African Study Monographs
TI - Origins and transformation of the Hamina
UR - http://jambo.africa.kyoto-u.ac.jp/kiroku/asm_suppl/abstracts/pdf/ASM_s41/6.mesele.pdf
VL - 41
ER -