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Eczet

Cattle Poetics

How Aesthetics Shapes Politics in Mursiland, Ethiopia

Medium: Buch
ISBN: 978-1-80073-168-4
Verlag: Berghahn Books
Erscheinungstermin: 01.09.2021
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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.


Produkteigenschaften


  • Artikelnummer: 9781800731684
  • Medium: Buch
  • ISBN: 978-1-80073-168-4
  • Verlag: Berghahn Books
  • Erscheinungstermin: 01.09.2021
  • Sprache(n): Englisch
  • Auflage: 1. Auflage 2021
  • Serie: Ethnography, Theory, Experiment
  • Produktform: Gebunden, HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
  • Gewicht: 568 g
  • Seiten: 346
  • Format (B x H x T): 157 x 235 x 20 mm
  • Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt
Autoren/Hrsg.

Autoren

Jean-Baptiste Eczet is a lecturer at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris where he is the Chair of Political Arts. He has been carrying out research in Ethiopia since 2008.

List of Figures

Foreword: The Politics of Beauty

Philippe Descola

Introduction: Forgotten Aesthetics

Chapter 1. Poetic of the Self: Anthroponomy

Chapter 2. The Colour Complex: The Network of Names

Chapter 3. The Time of Colours and People: Poems

Chapter 4. Revealing and Removing Beings: Ephemeral Adornments

Chapter 5. Displaying a Common Heritage: Lasting Adornments

Chapter 6. Pastoral Vitality on Show: Dances

Chapter 7. Complex Cattle Love

Chapter 8. The Poet and his Age

Chapter 9. The Restoration of Good Relations: Rituals

Chapter 10. The Resolution of Problems: Politics

Conclusion

References

Index