Peripheral People shatters some of the myths about them that have dominated scholarly approaches and provides a new framework for understanding occupational marginalization in Ethiopia and Africa generally. Deena Freeman Pictures more pics Deena Freeman Picture 39th AFI Life Achievement Award Honoring Morgan Freeman - Arrivals. With comparative data about fourteen different ethnic groups in southern Ethiopia, many of which have never been documented before, it offers new information about the lives of the people who “live on the edge.” Second, it offers a radically new understanding of these groups and the marginalization they face. First, it provides the most detailed history and ethnography of these groups to date. The marginalization of these groups is not new or localized and occurs in both the towns and the countryside of Ethiopia and across Africa. Despised as outcasts, they face discrimination across the whole social, political, and economic spectrum. As blacksmiths, potters, tanners, woodworkers, weavers, and hunters of wild animals, they fulfill important roles in society, yet many of them are considered by local people to be not “real people.” They are feared as purveyors of evil and supernatural powers. See Dena Freeman (ed.), Pentecostalism and Development: Churches, NGOs and Social Change in Africa (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), especially Deena. In southern Ethiopia, there are craftworkers and hunters who are vigorously excluded from mainstream society.

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