The Parchment Makers: an Ancient Art in Present-Day Ethiopia - Video Recording Review

African Arts, Autumn, 2002 by Worku Nida

(1.) This cathedral is famous for its large cultural holdings such as parchments, crosses, icons, and paintings, as well as for "hosting" the Lost Ark of the Covenant.

(2.) This effort was undertaken by the Ethiopian Manuscript Microfilm Organization of the Ministry of Culture, in collaboration with St. John's University in Collegeville, Minnesota. The archives are housed in both Addis Ababa and St. John's University (see Quirin 1982).

References cited

Gell, A. 1992. "The Technology of Enchantment and the Enchantment of Technolog35" in Anthropology, Art, and Aesthetics, eds. Jeremy Coote and Anthony Shelton, pp. 40-63. New York: Oxford University Press.

Quirin, James. 1982. "A Preliminary Analysis of New Archival Sources on Daily Life in Historical Highland Ethiopia," in Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference of Ethiopian Studies. University of Lund, 26-29 April, ed. Sven Rubenson, pp. 393-410. Institute of Ethiopian Studies, Addis Ababa University.

Shelemay, K.K, and P. Jeffery (eds.). 1993,1994,1997. Ethiopian Christian Liturgical Chant. Madison: A-R Editions. 3 vols.

Silverman, R. (ed.). 1999. Ethiopia: Traditions of Creativity. Seattle: University of Washington Press.

Tamrat, Taddesse. 1972. Church and State in Ethiopia, 1270-1527. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

Ullendorff, Edward. 1960. The Ethiopians. London: Oxford University Press.

Ullendorff, Edward. 1968. Ethiopia and the Bible. London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy.

WORKU NIDA, a doctoral student in the Department of Anthropology at UCLA, worked at the Ethiopian Manuscript Microfilm Organization of the Ministry of Culture from 1984 to 1998.