By Negesse Gutema
Tinish Bekarta
Tiliq Bealem
About the Book
"ትንሽ በካርታ፤ ትልቅ በዓለም" (Tinish Bekarta: Tiliq Bealem") is a history of a small town in Arsi Zone known as Bekoji and its educational progress written by one of the co-founders of YESSERA.
Bekoji is well known in the world through her world class runners. But the history of Bekoji is much bigger and deeper than these world class athletes. The book investigates Bekoji's history in a socio-anthropological way. It is an amalgamation of interviews performed with various local elders for hundreds of hours, data and documents gathered from the town, research, and references from all over the world. The basic premises is that Bekoji's history is an Ethiopia history in a microcosm - a melting pot of various peoples, religions, and social backgrounds.
(Summary by Dr. Metasebya Solomon of YESSERA)
Reviews
Dr. Solomon Gashaw:
Two facts make this book unique. First, from what I know, this is the only book that provides a comprehensive account of Becojii. It is written with a broad interdisciplinary perspective. Because of this, I would have liked the book’s title to be. A Socio-Historical Perspective of Beccojji and its People. Engineer Negese’s book is an excellent resource for the general non-academic readers of society, and it is also a superior teaching resource material for different level academic institutions. The book is an embodiment of an interdisciplinary perspective. It integrated different disciplinary approaches such as history, sociology, and social anthropology. For instance, his documentation of the Italian colonial administration and their social interaction with the various segments of society is an excellent example of a socio-historical method. In addition, it integrated and blended interviews and oral tradition. Read the full review here.
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