Wax and Gold: Tradition and Innovation in Ethiopian Culture

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Summary: Terse and outdated
Review: I received a copy of this as a gift. It is extremely terse and scientific. Really, most of the information in the book is outdated as it relates to events 32 years ago.

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Summary: Classic.
Review: Its stunning to me that someone would comment that this book is academic and that it is not useful because it is 32 years old. I guess we should throw out all literature from before the year 2000. Kant, Simmel, Marx, Kierkagard, Plato, the Constitution, Tolstoy, useless I suppose. Friend, if you are looking for a trashy novel you are in the wrong section of the bookstore. This is the classic sociological work on Ethiopia written by the renowned sociologist, Sensai, peacemaker and warrior Professor Donald Levine. This is the work that renowned author and historian Robert Kaplan recently cited to in a New York Times editorial as holding the key to peace in the Middle East.