Hamar Ethnography

这个项目回到了Ivo Strecker和Jean Lydall多年前开始的人种学研究。其目的是进一步发现和记录埃塞俄比亚南部哈马尔人的文化天才，因为它在仪式实践中表现出来。大量的经验数据(电影、录音、笔记本)以及理论取向(修辞文化理论)已经存在。它们作为两个尚未完成的人种学书籍手稿的基础：(1)跨越牛的飞跃。过渡仪式埃塞俄比亚南部哈马尔人之间的过渡仪式。(2)阅读内脏。《埃塞俄比亚南部哈马尔的祭祀和占卜》，作者：Ivo Strecker and Jean Lydall。虽然这些手稿已经相当丰富，但它们仍需要大量的工作来丰富实证材料，并帮助解释各种象征性的陈述和行动。为此，两位民族志专家将在三个月内返回哈马尔，与久经考验的老的和年轻的告密者一起工作，以便再次仔细研究和讨论电影、录音和书面说明，以达成充分和(暂时)最后的理解。这两个主题都涉及广泛的文化领域。因此，《跨越牛》有55集，每一集都需要自己的分析和解释，而《读内脏》涉及一个复杂的语义场，在这个语义场中，类比或者更确切地说是象征性的表达发挥了核心作用。在这里，民族志学者经常面临谜语，只有在博学的哈马尔的帮助下才能解开谜题。

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.