Wom The Tool Maker Summary

For my response, I chose the article “Woman: The Tool Maker”, written by Steven A. Brandt and Kathryn Weedman. The article is about an ethnic group in Ethiopia called the Konso- but more specifically it is about an elderly woman named Sokate. The article focuses on Sokate, an energetic 70 year-old Konso woman who is a hide worker, which is what most people consider to be a “man’s job”. As stated, Sokate is part of an Ethiopian ethnic group called the Konso. The Konso group grow several crops on their land, and raise livestock that provide the skins for the hide workers (Brandt). Although most groups have men learning from their fathers and working, women in the Konso are taught by their mothers and grandmothers. After reading the full