semyana

marriage

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Amhara people

  • Lalibela, Ethiopia: Amhara market
    In Amhara

    …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 be dissolved, even after the death of…

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