TY  - BOOK
AU  - Eczet,Jean-Baptiste
AU  - Descola,Philippe
TI  - Cattle Poetics: How Aesthetics Shapes Politics in Mursiland, Ethiopia 
T2  - Ethnography, Theory, Experiment
SN  - 9781800731684
AV  - DT380.4.M85 E2913 2021
U1  - 305.896/54 23
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - New York, Oxford
PB  - Berghahn Books
KW  - Cattle
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Omo River Valley (Ethiopia and Kenya)
KW  - Murzu (African people)
KW  - Rites and ceremonies
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Anthropology (General), Cultural Studies (General), Development Studies
N1  - 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; restricted access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781800731691?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781800731691
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781800731691/original
ER  -