damoz

type of marriage

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role in Amhara culture

  • Lalibela, Ethiopia: Amhara market
    In Amhara

    …marriage: kal kidan, qurban, and damoz. Kal kidan (also called serat or semanya [“eighty”]) is marriage by civil contract. It is by far the most common form, though a great percentage of such unions end in divorce. Qurban marriages are performed in church and are regarded as sacred; they cannot…

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