Tomb_houses

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Tomb_houses

Session Information

Session Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/2196/39ae375e-0af8-444e-b0e3-33160291e9f7

Title: Circular and rectangular houses for tombs

Description: In some parts of Zargula and some Gamo villages, very small houses in the same shape (circular and rectangular) as houses where people live are built on top of the burial chambers. The houses are made from the same material as living houses: some have grass-thatch roof and others corrugated-iron-roof; the walls are made of wood. The six pictures in the session are taken at two different times in two different places: in June 2005 (during an NWO-funded project of Azeb Amha) in the outskirts of Geretse and in February 2007 near Dhimalle. graneries

Date created: 2005-06-08

Location

Continent: Africa

Country: Ethiopia

Region: Southern Ethiopia

Address: Southern Ethiopia

Project

ID: MDP0359

Name: 0447-MDP0359

Description: Zargulla (zay) is an endangered Omotic language spoken by c.a. 8000 speakers in south-west Ethiopia (62.60N 37.19E). Several Zargulla villages are characterized by terrace-farming and clusters of houses commemorating the dead in the higher parts of valleys, and residential areas in foothills and plateaus. The project will produce a linguistic and ethnographic documentation of this parallel and interactive spatial complex of farming and dwelling, which is endangered by socio-cultural changes. Its primary goal is to produce a multi-media digital corpus and a thematic dictionary on house-construction and terrace-farming, and, using these outputs, to study the grammar of space in Zargulla.