Negotiations, Re-contextualizations and Re-significations of Arsi Oromo ateetee Prayers by Vernacular Belief Practitioners and Protestants in the Kokossa District of Oromiya
by Leila Qashu
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Introduction
This page mainly contains references to the doctoral dissertation of Leila Qashu,
- Toward an Understanding of Justice, Belief, and Women’s Rights: Ateetee, an Arsi Oromo Women’s Sung Dispute Resolution Process in Ethiopia. PhD diss., Memorial University of Newfoundland, 2016. [online version]
Map
(modified from Qashu, Toward an Understanding, 11)
Videos
Ateetee (on YouTube)
published in 2020:
Interview / group discussion:
Additional Video
» View presentation by Leila Qashu on “Participatory/Collaborative and Improvisational Multimedia Workshops Among Young Arsi Oromo Women in Ethiopia: Responding to Violence, Exploring Challenges, Demonstrating Resistance.”
Audio Recordings
- “Words of Life” audio tracts in Arsi Oromo (vol. 1, c. 1967)
Includes a few gospel songs as bridges
[Qashu, Toward an Understanding, p. 454, lists her audio tracks and videos]
Musical notations
See Qashu, Toward an Understanding,
- p. 142: Ateetee qororo diiraa ... [also in her EGM chapter]
- p. 241: Gooftaa kiyya … [also in her EGM chapter]
- p. 374: Haadha heessee …
- p. 377: Ateetiyyoo …
- [p. 429f: ateetee song texts]
Photographs relating to ateetee
See Qashu,Toward an Understanding,
- p. 1: Photograph of Arsi Oromo women gathered in a circle, singing ateetee at a ceremony in Gutuu, near Kokossa, Ethiopia. April, 2011.
- [p. 129: Photographs of men‘s and women’s saddeetta, 2012]
- p. 130: Photographs of negotiations at ateetee ceremony, 2012
- p. 139: Photograph of ateetee fala, 2011 [used in chapter]
- p. 151: Photograph of ateetee fala, 2011
- p. 164: Photograph of grass offered at the end of ateetee fala, 2011
- p. 260f, 277f, 288, 293, 295: Photographs of (women with) siinqee
- p. 355 [ch. 7: Singing for results]
- p. 380: ateetee women singing in a circle, 2012
- p. 394: Dressed for ateetee (group incl. LQ)
- p. 395: Group of ateetee women singing
Profiles of gospel musicians
- [p. x] Taliilee Fiqruu (Dr.)
Some of the early evangelical gospel singers were from the Arsi area, but sang in Amharic at the time, such as
- Legesse Wetro (Prof. Dr.)
- Shiferaw Mekuria
Other Online Resources
- Light of Hope Ministry Ethiopia (LOHME)
» Read introduction of LOHME on Frontier Fellowship
» Read article “Contextualization of the Gospel”
(Frontier Journal, Summer 2021)
» Read Newsletter The Frontier and You (December 2015).
- European Research Network on Global Pentecostalism (GloPent)
Subpage on Pentecostal and Charismatic Movements in Ethiopia
by J. Haustein (last modified in 2013)
- Waaqeffannaa
Website introducing Oromo Indigenous Religion
(managed by “Group of Waaqeffannaa Assembly” (Norway)
Further Readings
Bartels, Lambert. “Dabo: A Form of Cooperation between Farmers among the Macha Galla of Ethiopia. Social Aspects, Songs, and Ritual.” Anthropos 70, no. 5-6 (1975): 883–925. [online version (subscription barrier)]
Gemechu J. Geda. “Pilgrimages and Syncretism: Religious Transformation among the Arsi Oromo of Ethiopia.” PhD diss., University of Bayreuth, 2014. [online version]
Maro, Anaïs. “Imagining Oromumma… in Music: A History of Oromo Nationalism and the Birth of Oromo Music.” Presentation at the 2nd Global Conference on Music & Nationalism, Palermo (Italy), June 2018. [online version]
Qashu, Leila. “The Individual and the Group in the Songs of Arsi Oromo Men”, Annales d’Éthiopie 23 (2008): 115–133. [online version]
Qashu, Leila. La musique dans le mariage Arsi Oromo. Master’s thesis, Université Paris VIII, 2004.
Talilee B. Fiqruu. “Reviving Aspects of Ateetee: An Arsi Oromo Women’s Musical Ritual to Empower Women to Protect Their Human Rights and Participate in Society’s Social and Religious Life.” DMin diss., Portland Seminary, George Fox University, 2018. [online version]