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Ramos, M. J. (1999). The invention of a mission: The brief establishment of a Portuguese Catholic minority in Renaissance Ethiopia. In Mucha, J. (Ed.), Dominant culture as a foreign culture: Dominant groups in the eyes of minorities. (pp. 135-148). Utrecht: Columbia University Press.

M. J. Ramos,  "The invention of a mission: The brief establishment of a Portuguese Catholic minority in Renaissance Ethiopia", in Dominant culture as a foreign culture: Dominant groups in the eyes of minorities, Mucha, J., Ed., Utrecht, Columbia University Press, 1999, pp. 135-148

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AB  - Like many concepts in the social sciences, the notion of cultural minority entails some degree of falatious labeling. In the Ethiopian context - and in the specific case here presented - that is particularly true. In a way, many Ethiopian cultural minorities, being demographically not that minor, have had historically strong pretensions to become cultural majorities(1). Ethiopians like to think of themselves as a minority within the African context, and thus as part of a Christian, historical, and literate, cultural dominant group; the monophisite Ethiopians thought and think of themselves as a minority within Christianity; the Jesuit (referred to in this article) were to some extent a minority in Portuguese ecclesiastical and political life during the counter-reformation years (dominated by Dominican views); the Portuguese were a minority within the catholic community in Ethiopia...
The problem under consideration in this workshop must then be considered within the general framework of social empowerment and domination problems: frequently, a dominated cultural minority is simply defined by the fact that it isn't yet or is no more a dominant cultural minority in a given context.
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