Cattle Poetics Piper Kendrix Williams

Cattle Poetics Piper Kendrix WilliamsLoving 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

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The Ptolemaic period witnessed an enormous increase in the number of hieroglyphic signs and iconographic elements

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many of which equate karma with notions of fate