{"id":420,"date":"2015-04-06T19:48:30","date_gmt":"2015-04-06T18:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reinodeaksum.wordpress.com\/?p=420"},"modified":"2015-04-06T19:48:30","modified_gmt":"2015-04-06T18:48:30","slug":"fallecimiento-del-profesor-donald-n-levine-sociologo-y-estudioso-de-la-cultura-etiope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reinodeaksum.com\/?p=420","title":{"rendered":"Fallecimiento del profesor Donald N. Levine, soci\u00f3logo y estudioso de la cultura et\u00edope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/reinodeaksum.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/04\/donald-levine-en-2009.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-422 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/reinodeaksum.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/04\/donald-levine-en-2009.jpg?w=165\" alt=\"Donald Levine en 2009\" width=\"165\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.reinodeaksum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/donald-levine-en-2009.jpg 1449w, https:\/\/www.reinodeaksum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/donald-levine-en-2009-165x300.jpg 165w, https:\/\/www.reinodeaksum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/donald-levine-en-2009-768x1398.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.reinodeaksum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/donald-levine-en-2009-562x1024.jpg 562w, https:\/\/www.reinodeaksum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/donald-levine-en-2009-1200x2185.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 165px) 100vw, 165px\" \/><\/a>El domingo, 5 de abril de 2015, falleci\u00f3 el profesor Donald Nathan Levine, soci\u00f3logo, educador, te\u00f3rico social y escritor norteamericano. Se trata de una gran p\u00e9rdida para los estudios et\u00edopes, ya que Levine consagr\u00f3 su vida a la comprensi\u00f3n de la cultura et\u00edope. Como homenaje a su carrera y aportaciones, queremos dedicarle esta sencilla semblanza biogr\u00e1fica.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><strong>Biograf\u00eda<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">Donald Nathan Levine naci\u00f3 el 16 de junio de 1931 en New Castle, Pensilvania. Tras doctorarse en la Universidad de Chicago en sociolog\u00eda en 1957, durante cincuenta a\u00f1os se dedicar\u00e1 a los estudios et\u00edopes, si bien alternar\u00e1 esta pasi\u00f3n con su inter\u00e9s en otras ramas de la sociolog\u00eda y la pr\u00e1ctica del aikido.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">En 1962 entra a formar parte del cuerpo docente de la Universidad de Chicago, lo que le permiti\u00f3 organizar en 1978 el\u00a0<em>Fifth International Conference of Ethiopian Studies<\/em> (V Congreso Internacional de Estudios Et\u00edopes), el principal foro internacional de estudiosos de dicho campo.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">Adem\u00e1s de multitud de art\u00edculos cient\u00edficos, Levine ser\u00e1 recordado por escribir dos obras consideradas clave en los estudios et\u00edopes: <em>Wax and Gold<\/em> (1965), en el que analiz\u00f3 la compleja sociedad semita et\u00edope (tigri\u00f1a y amhara, principalmente) a partir del concepto po\u00e9tico de la cera y el oro (la cera corresponde al texto escrito y su significado literal, mientras que el oro ser\u00eda el significado oculto), y <em>Greater Ethiopia<\/em> (1974, revisado en 2000), donde realiz\u00f3 un extensivo repaso al concepto de la Gran Etiop\u00eda, entendiendo a \u00e9sta como un gran complejo cultural que abarca a un gran n\u00famero de sociedades de\u00a0todos los pa\u00edses del Cuerno de \u00c1frica, incluyendo Somalia.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Para saber m\u00e1s<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Donald_N._Levine\" target=\"_blank\">Art\u00edculo sobre Donald N. Levine en la Wikipedia inglesa<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Levine, D.N. (1965) <em>Wax and Gold: Tradition and Innovation in Ethiopian Culture<\/em>. Chicago: Chicago University Press.<\/li>\n<li>Levine, D.N. (1974)<em> Greater Ethiopia: the Evolution of a Multiethnic Society.<\/em>\u00a0Chicago y Londres: Chicago University Press.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>El domingo, 5 de abril de 2015, falleci\u00f3 el profesor Donald Nathan Levine, soci\u00f3logo, educador, te\u00f3rico social y escritor norteamericano. Se trata de una gran p\u00e9rdida para los estudios et\u00edopes, ya que Levine consagr\u00f3 su vida a la comprensi\u00f3n de la cultura et\u00edope. 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