Das Erbe der "Helden" Grabkult der Konso und kulturverwandter Ethnien in Süd-Äthiopien

• Main Author: Poissonnier, Nicole (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Published: Universitätsverlag Göttingen 2009
• Subjects: Social & cultural history; Society & social sciences; ethnology; burial rites; South Ethiopia; Fruchtbarkeit; Jagd; Konso (Volk); Löwen; Stele; Waka
• Online Access: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

The work offers for the first time a comprehensive study of the anthropomorphic wooden sculptures of the Konso (waakaa) with a detailed description of the figures, their production, their symbolism, the way they are erected and associated rituals. Based on an inventory, the figures are divided into...