A Descriptive And Interpretive Documentation Of Enemor Household Utensils

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This is a qualitative study conducted to identify, classify, describe andrndocument the house utensils of Enemor in an effort to document endangeredrnelements of material culture of the Enemor people in south Ethiopia. To achieve thisrngeneral objective, participant and non-participant observations and unstructuredrninterviews were used to gather relevant data. The audio-video and image datarncollected from Enemor consultants were digitally documented and employed for therndata analysis in the study.rnThe data analysis revealed that the following research findings are worthrnconsidering in any effort geared towards documenting and preserving culturalrnhousehold utensils of the Enemor people in this age of globalization.rnThe current free market economic policy of Ethiopia appears to have openedrnmany socio-cultural and business opportunities for foreign household utensilsrnproduced by different foreign factories (for instance, from China) to dominaterndomestic household utensils produced by factories in Ethiopia in terms of price andrnquality. Due to this, the Enemor people seem to have been attracted towards thesernforeign household utensils instead of frequently producing and using their indigenousrncultural household utensils. Thus, the level of endangerment of their indigenousrnknowledge of producing the utensils has been increasing from time to time.rnThe utensils identified are made of different kinds of raw materials. Fromrnenset and qia, they produce endera, quachiqiche, kap’wat, itfoko, and chefad. Therernare utensils produced from bamboo tree such as sisha, tekuya (in different size andrnshape), and satera. Mektefia, zenb’were, sheta, and yechuceqye are produced fromrnzigeba tree. There are also house utensils produced from clay soil such as bitter andrnjebena.rnirnThe common utilities of the utensils are linked with the day to day activities ofrnthe community. They utilize some of the house utensils for cooking, serving andrnsleeping. They produce the utensils to subsidize their livelihood, to offer as a presentrnand to decorate their house. Most frequently women are involved in the productionrnand sale of the utensils.rnThe utensils on brink of extinction are inajapa, container to drink water, milkrnand traditional drinks, and finjan, lit. coffee cups, which are made of clay. Ankefuernwhich is produced from animal horn and wooden utensils waqema, yeje, yegir andrngebete are no more produced in the community.rnOn the whole, it is recommended that stakeholders (e.g. NGOs, culturalrndepartments of the government, the Enemor community) should work together andrnidentify possible ways of preserving the indigenous Enemor knowledge and practicesrnof producing and using the household utensils. They need to involve researchers forrnfurther research on issues out of the scope of this study. Eventually, such initiativesrncan result in reliable ways of transmitting the Enemor culture of producing and usingrnthe utensils to the future generation.

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