Interpreting Ethiopia: Observations of Five Decades is a collection of scholarly essays that covers Donald N. Levine's fifty years of scholarship on Ethiopian Studies. From "The Conceptions of Time and Space in the Amhara World View" to the "Masculinity and Warriorhood in Ethiopia and Japan", and everything in between, the scope and depth of Levine's essays make this book a must-read for those interested in the past and present of Ethiopia.