HAMAR (ETHIOPIA)
Dr. Abati’s team enters Ethiopia to live with a tribe only recently studied: the Hamar. In accordance with the Hamar’s rules of hospitality, Dr. Abati is “adopted” by Kuelle, a family patriarch. The team visits the Hamar’s farming lands, protected from voracious birds. The women, who adorn their bodies with animal skins and bracelets, bear scars on their backs that mark their initiation into marriage. The team observes an incipient form of apiculture, or beekeeping, and visits an exotic intertribal market, where Hamar youth participate in courting dances..

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