Cattle poetics : how aesthetics shapes politics in Mursiland, Ethiopia /

"Loving cows, then killing them. The relation with cattle in Mursi country is shaped by the dichotomy between the value given to it during life and the death imposed upon it. The killing of cattle may be brief and inflicted with few words, but it is preceded by a series of intense aesthetic pra...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Eczet, Jean-Baptiste (Author)
Other Authors: Davoust, Andrea, 1979- (Translator), Ribeyrol, Wendy (Translator)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Francés
Published: New York : Berghahn, 2021.
Series:Ethnography, theory, experiment ; v. 9.
Subjects:
Murzu (African people)
Cattle > Social aspects > Omo River Valley (Ethiopia and Kenya)
Rites and ceremonies > Omo River Valley (Ethiopia and Kenya)
Mursi (Peuple d'Afrique)
Rites et cérémonies > Omo, Vallée de l' (Éthiopie et Kenya)
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
Cattle > Social aspects.
Manners and customs.
Rites and ceremonies.
Omo River Valley (Ethiopia and Kenya) > Social life and customs.
Omo, Vallée de l' (Éthiopie et Kenya) > Mœurs et coutumes.
Africa > Omo River Valley.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Forgotten aesthetics
  • Poetics of the self : anthroponomy
  • The colour complex : the network of names
  • The time of colours and people : poems
  • Revealing and removing beings : ephemeral adornments
  • Displaying a common heritage : lasting adornments
  • Pastoral vitality : dances
  • Complex cattle love
  • The poet and their ages
  • The restoration of persons : rituals
  • The resolution of problems : politics.

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