Beers, Feasts, and Status: The Role of Beer in Southern Ethiopia and Around the World
Speaker: John W. Arthur, Ph.D., Professor of Anthropology, University of South Florida
Across the globe and throughout time, the drinking of Indigenous beer has been utilized as an expression of a variety of identities, including age, gender, status, and ethnicity. It can serve to either bond or exclude people in a community. Beer has a deep history in Africa connecting the living with the spirits shaping ritual practices, as well as motivating people to work as a form of economic payment. For the last 25 years Dr. Arthur has worked with the Indigenous Gamo of southern Ethiopia and here discusses the role of beer in their society.
This talk draws on Dr. Arthur’s ethnoarchaeological study of household pottery assemblages, his discovery of pottery use-alteration as an indicator of beer production, and his recent analysis of archaeological pottery assemblages from Gamo historical sites. His research identifies and explores the importance of beer in societies around the world.
This lecture series generously supported by Julie Kent ‘18MS and Scott Kent ‘13.
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The Spanish Film Club series was made possible with the support of Pradga, SPAIN Arts & Culture and the Secretary of State for Culture of Spain.
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Dir. Xavi Sala/México/119 min/ 2019/Spanish and Zapotec with English subtitles
Extra Terrestres (Extra Terrestres)
Dir. Carla Cavina/Venezuela, Puerto Rico/101min/2017/Spanish with English subtitles
A Translator (Un traductor)
Dir. Rodrigo Barriuso, Sebastián Barriuso/Cuba, Canada/107min/2018/ Spanish and Russian with English subtitles
The Infiltrators (Los infiltrados)
Dir. Alex Rivera, Christina Ibarra/ USA/95min/2019/English
Birds of Passage (Pájaros de Verano)
Dir. Ciro Guerra, Cristina Gallego/Colombia, México, Denmark/125 min/2018/Spanish with English subtitles
Enough with Catcalling: What is the Place of Women in the Cities? (Chega de Fiu Fiu)
Dir. Amanda Kamanchek, Fernanda Frazão/Brazil/ 73min/2018/Portuguese with English subtitles
For more information: https://sciences.ucf.edu/politics/latin-american-latinx-film-festival/
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