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Article: Beyond wide-eyed angels: contemporary expressive culture in Ethiopia.(Cover story)(Report)
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- African Arts
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- March 22, 2009
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Our intention in this issue is to present new research on Ethiopian expressive culture (1) that illuminates how some of the complexities of the modern experience, particularly within the post-Socialist period, influence art. To use a popular form of Amharic (2) rhetoric as metaphor, we hope to get at the seminna werq, the "wax and gold" of art making in Ethiopia (Levine 1972). (3) This term, which refers to the lost-wax casting process, is commonly found in Amharic poetry and song and in historical and contemporary discussions of politics. The "wax" refers to that which is obvious; the "gold" to that which is hidden. The "wax" is the fact that ...
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