Cattle Poetics: How Aesthetics Shapes Politics in Mursiland, Ethiopia

Cattle Poetics: How Aesthetics Shapes Politics in Mursiland, Ethiopia

Author
Jean-Baptiste Eczet
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Language
English
Year
2021
Page
346
ISBN
9781800731691
File Type
pdf
File Size
19.4 MiB

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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