{"title":"Manuel João Ramos. Of Hairy Kings and Saintly Slaves: An Ethiopian Travelogue (C. J. Tribe, Trans.). Canon Pyon: Sean Kingston. 2018. 214 pp.","authors":"Kaian Lam","doi":"10.4000/cea.4166","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Of Hairy Kings and Saintly Slaves: An Ethiopian Travelogue is not what one would expect, even after attending a book launch at which Manuel Joao Ramos presented an English publication translated professionally. It is certainly not the typical anthropological work that younger researchers are familiar with. Ramos’s most recent book is a 4-in-1 symphony, combining extracts from his travel diary, letters to a Portuguese weekly, transcriptions of Ethiopian legends from the Gondar and Lake T’ana r...","PeriodicalId":37917,"journal":{"name":"Cadernos de Estudos Africanos","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2019-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Cadernos de Estudos Africanos","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.4000/cea.4166","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"Arts and Humanities","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Of Hairy Kings and Saintly Slaves: An Ethiopian Travelogue is not what one would expect, even after attending a book launch at which Manuel Joao Ramos presented an English publication translated professionally. It is certainly not the typical anthropological work that younger researchers are familiar with. Ramos’s most recent book is a 4-in-1 symphony, combining extracts from his travel diary, letters to a Portuguese weekly, transcriptions of Ethiopian legends from the Gondar and Lake T’ana r...
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Cadernos de Estudos Africanos is a journal published by the Centro de Estudos Internacionais of ISCTE-IUL, Lisbon focusing on an academic approach to Africa. It welcomes the collaboration of the international scientific community, who specializes in the Social Sciences branch of African Studies, and it is particularly committed to an internationalizing scope, following a multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary envisioning. The journal publishes articles in four languages, Portuguese, English, Spanish and French, and it has been a regular biannual publication since its first issue (July 2001).