Study and Documentation of the Awura Amba Community Life Style and Identity
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2010-10
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Addis Ababa University
Abstract
The wide world is said to be becoming a district or village through globalization. Regardless
of race, religion and level of civilization, people of the world are in the way to be one nation.
The improvement in the means of communication, transportation and trade relationship
facilitate the way towards globalization. Individuals' day to day life has been influenced by
their surroundings. Nations and nationalities are being flooded by imported and imitated
material and non material culture. International Medias, websites and newspapers help to
communicate individuals in the same way. Nations and nationalities are running to have
similar economic political and may be religious culture.
Opposite to the above idea a new community has emerged 111 Ethiopia, with its own
philosophy of life style. This community was founded by a person called Zumra uru 111
Amhara regional state South Gonder zone Fogera district in a village named is Awura Amba.
Zumra paid a vital role to create and shape the Awura Amba's identity in a way that possible
and acceptable by individuals inside and outside the community.
In 1972 G.C Zumra founded Awura Amba as a new community with his followers. These
people have their own way of life style: work habit, belief, gender equality housekeeping
guiding principles and administrative rules. There are two main entities in A wura Amba, the
'community' and "society". The way they stand to overcome different economic political
religious and cultural crises pushed me to study this community. To achieve the objectives
interview, observation and audiovisuals method were used
The number of Awura Amba community is small in number. For example, when they establish
this community they were 19. Now the number increased to 412 gradually. Moreover the
number of elders smaller than the others. This put the society in danger that if they encounter
any danger, their socio-cultural life will be disappeared. Whether they do not teach their
culture for their children, it seems to be they are endangered. Fortunately, the Awura Amba
community has discussion stage among themselves to share their life style. Further more, if
tourists or scholars come to their land, or if they get stage wherever, they promote their life
style every day.
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