Hamar Ethnography

该项目回到了伊沃·斯特雷克（Ivo Strecker）和让·莱德尔（Jean Lydall）多年前开始的民族志研究。目的是进一步发现和记录埃塞俄比亚南部哈马尔的文化天才，因为它表现在仪式实践中。大量的经验数据（电影，录音，笔记本电脑）已经存在，以及一个理论方向（修辞文化理论）。它们是两本尚未完成的民族志书籍手稿的基础：（1）跨越牛群。埃塞俄比亚南部哈马尔人的一种过渡仪式。(2)阅读内脏。埃塞俄比亚南部哈马尔人的祭祀和占卜，伊沃·斯特雷克和让·莱德尔。虽然手稿已经相当可观，他们仍然需要大量的工作，以丰富经验材料，并帮助解释多种象征性的声明和行动。为此，两位民族志学者将返回哈马尔三个月，与久经考验的老的和年轻的线人一起工作，以便再次仔细研究和讨论电影、录音和书面笔记，以达成充分的和（暂时）最终的理解。这两个主题涉及广泛的文化领域。因此，《飞跃牛群》有55集，每一集都需要自己的分析和解释，而《阅读内脏》涉及一个复杂的语义场，其中类比或者更确切地说是象征性的表达起着核心作用。在这里，民族志学者经常面临谜语，只有在知识渊博的哈马尔的帮助下才能解开。

The project returns to the ethnographic research, which Ivo Strecker and Jean Lydall began many years ago. The aim is to further discover and document the cultural genius of the Hamar in southern Ethiopia as it manifests itself in ritual practices. A substantial amount of empirical data (films, sound recordings, notebooks) exists already, as well as a theoretical orientation (rhetoric culture theory). They have served as a basis for two as yet incomplete ethnographic book manuscripts: (1) The leap across the cattle. A rite of transition among the Hamar of southern Ethiopia. (2) Reading the entrails. Sacrifice and divination among the Hamar of southern Ethiopia, by Ivo Strecker und Jean Lydall. Although the manuscripts are already quite substantial, they still need a considerable amount of work to enrich the empirical material and help to interpret manifold symbolical statements and actions. For this purpose the two ethnographers will return for three months to Hamar to work together with well-proven old and also younger informants in order to once again carefully study and discuss films, sound recordings and written notes to reach and adequate and (for the time being) final understanding. Both themes deal with wide ranging cultural domains. Thus, the 'Leap across the cattle' has fifty-five episodes, each of which will need its own analysis and interpretation, and 'Reading the entrails' involves a complex semantic field in which analogies or rather symbolical expressions play a central role. Here the ethnographers often face riddles, which can only be solved with the help of knowledgeable Hamar.