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Eczet, Jean-Baptiste [Author] ; Descola, Philippe [Contributor]

Cattle Poetics

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  • Media type: E-Book
  • Title: Cattle Poetics : How Aesthetics Shapes Politics in Mursiland, Ethiopia
  • Contains: Frontmatter
    CONTENTS
    ILLUSTRATIONS
    FOREWORD The Politics of Beauty
    Introduction: Forgotten Aesthetics
    1 Poetics of the Self: Anthroponomy
    2 The Colour Complex: The Network of Names
    3 The Time of Colours and People: Poems
    4 Revealing and Removing Beings: Ephemeral Adornments
    5 Displaying a Common Heritage: Lasting Adornments
    6 Pastoral Vitality: Dances
    7 Complex Cattle Love
    8 The Poets and Their Ages
    9 The Restoration of Persons: Rituals
    10 The Resolution of Problems: Politics
    Conclusion
    References
    Index
  • Contributor: Eczet, Jean-Baptiste [Author]; Descola, Philippe [Contributor]
  • Published: New York; Oxford: Berghahn Books, [2021]
  • Published in: Ethnography, Theory, Experiment ; 9
  • Extent: 1 Online-Ressource (346 p.)
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.1515/9781800731691
  • ISBN: 9781800731691
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  • Keywords: Cattle Social aspects Omo River Valley (Ethiopia and Kenya) ; Murzu (African people) ; Rites and ceremonies Omo River Valley (Ethiopia and Kenya) ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
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  • Footnote: In English
  • Description: 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 practices, such as body painting and adornments, colour poetics, poems and oratory art. This book investigates the link between the nurturing and killing of cattle with Mursi daily life and finds that these rituals cut across pastoralism, social organisation and politics in forming the very fabric of Mursi society
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