Révéler et éloigner. Usages du corps et de ses ornements en pays mursi

Auteur: 

Jean-Baptiste Eczet

Date de publication: 

01 Janvier 2014

Mots-clefs: 

  • Manners and customs
  • Moeurs et coutumes
  • Etiquette
  • Savoir-vivre
  • Etiqueta
  • body
  • Éthiopie
  • Tourists
  • Voyageurs
  • Peoples
  • Investigación
  • research
  • recherche
  • Practice
  • Pratique
  • article
  • Articles (linguistique)
  • light
  • Lumière
  • Luz
  • population
  • Vieillissement de la population
  • Éducation en matière de population
  • Población
  • valle
  • valles
  • individu
  • relations
  • relaciones
  • Cattle
  • Bovins
  • Boeuf domestique
  • Ganado vacuno
  • Dead
  • bijouterie
  • Jewelry
  • bijoux
  • Joyas
  • Joyería
  • Painting
  • peinture
  • Pintura
  • Feces
  • Excrementos
  • Manures
  • Fumier
  • Friendship
  • Amitié
  • Amistad
  • Ability
  • arcilla
  • Clay
  • Argile
  • producción
  • Primaire
  • Materia
  • Matter
  • Matière
  • Matière (philosophie)
  • Materia (Filosofía)
  • bovine
  • car
  • Ethnology
  • anthropologie culturelle
  • Tourism

Publié ici : 

22 Mars 2016

Mis à jour le : 

03 Juillet 2017

Langue de publication: 

  • Français
CFEE (Ethiopie)

Visiter le site web

http://www.persee.fr/doc/ethio_0066-2127_2014_num_29_1_1567

Reveal and remove. Uses of the body and its ornaments in Mursiland Body ornamentation in Southern Ethiopia attracts many tourists and reporters in search of primitive, exotic peoples. With a few exceptions, anthropological research has not considered body ornamentation as a cultural practice. This article aims to shed light on somes of these practices among the Mursi, a pastoral population of several thousand living in the Omo valley in southern Ethiopia. Ephemeral bodily adornments regulate interactions through successive layers of personal involvement. Every individual uses them to manage their relations with different beings : their peers, their cattle, their dead, and tourists. Jewellery and painting with cattle dung indicate attachments, revealing pastoral and friendship skills that have already been acquired. By contrary, painting oneself with clay and painting oneself for tourists are works of detachment. These acts are directed towards transient beings (the dead and tourists) to be warded off, and are the production of this detachment. By contrast, the primary purpose of using jewellery or dung is as a visual record of active relationships. Thus, painting and the wearing of ornamentation are merely a matter of aesthetic expressivity, but are visual propositions that inform different kind of interactions. One should better study and consider these practices, since they participate in each and every social relation.

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