Ethnography, Theory, Experiment. Cattle Poetics : : How Aesthetics Shapes Politics in Mursiland, Ethiopia / / Jean-Baptiste Eczet.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2021
• VerfasserIn: Eczet, Jean-Baptiste,
• MitwirkendeR: Descola, Philippe,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Ethnography, Theory, Experiment ; 9
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (346 p.)
• Other title: 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781800731691; 9783110997675
• DOI: 10.1515/9781800731691?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Jean-Baptiste Eczet.

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.