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Cattle Poetics - How Aesthetics Shapes Politics in Mursiland, Ethiopia (Hardcover)
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Cattle Poetics - How Aesthetics Shapes Politics in Mursiland, Ethiopia (Hardcover)
Series: Ethnography, Theory, Experiment
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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.
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