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Of Hairy Kings and Saintly Slaves - An Ethiopian Travelogue (Hardcover)
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Of Hairy Kings and Saintly Slaves - An Ethiopian Travelogue (Hardcover)
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A lost sketch book on a Portuguese castle rampart left Manuel Joao
Ramos bereft, and the impulse to draw deserted him - but his first
trip to Ethiopia reawakened this pleasure, so long denied. Drawing
obsessively and free from care, his rapidly caught impressions
convey the rough edges of the intensely lived experiences that are
fundamental to the desire to travel. For the travel sketch is more
than a record or register of attendance (`been there, seen that'):
it holds invisibly within itself the remnant of a look, the hint of
a memory and a trace of an osmosis of feelings between the sketcher
and the person or objects sketched. Less intrusive than using a
camera, Ramos argues drawing comprises a less imperialist, more
benign way of researching: his sketchbook becomes a means of
communication between himself and the world in which he travels,
rendering him more human to those around him. As he journeys
through the Ethiopian Central Highlands, collecting historical
legends of the power struggles surrounding the arrival of the first
Europeans in the mid-sixteenth century, he is drawn to the
Portuguese legacy of castles, palaces and churches, near ruins now,
though echoes of their lost splendour are retained in oral
accounts. Excerpts from his diary, as well as journalistic pieces,
share the conviviality of his encounters with the priests, elders
and historians who act as custodians of the Amhara oral tradition.
Their tales are interwoven with improvised, yet assured, drawings,
and this informality of structure successfully retains the
immediacy and pleasure of his discovery of Ethiopia. It also
suggests the potential for drawing to play a more active part in
anthropological production, as a means of creating new narratives
and expositional forms in ethnography, bringing it closer to travel
writing or the graphic novel.
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