2018
447 pp.
37 colour photos, 14 b/w photos, 2 b/w aerial photos, 4 colour diagrams, 3 colour figures, 9 drawings, 3 tables
Text languages: English, German
This volume celebrates the life and work of the anthropologist Ivo Strecker, who has studied with the Hamar of southern Ethiopia since 1969. Through this decades long engagement, as well as his ethnographic films and his work in spearheading the international Rhetorical Culture Project, Ivo has been highly influential, both in advancing anthropological theory and encouraging numerous students to commit to fieldwork in and around Hamar. While alluding to various facets of Ivo’s synthetic thinking and his unique personality, the contributions to this Festschrift also make important statements on fieldwork, visual anthropology, rhetoric, and other fields that relate to his œuvre.
CONTENTS
Thomas Bierschenk: Preface
Section 1 – Barjo Äla
Felix Girke: A Homage to an Anthropologist, a Homage to Anthropology, and Anthropology as Homage to Cultural Ingenuity
Yohannes Yitbarek Ejigu: Ivo at Arba Minch University – A Fortuitous Arrangement and its Prehistory
Baldambe (Balambaras Aike Berinas): Greetings to the Children in Berlin (1974)
Section 2 – Anamo
James Fernandez: “With Our Tongues in Our Cheeks” – Ethnographic Familiarity and the Work of Friendship in an Age of Irony
Stephan Feuchtwang: Is Ivo Hamar? Some Fond Reflections
Philippe-Joseph Salazar: Roteiro rhétorique de Joe Buck – En souvenir d’une rencontre à Memphis, avec Ivo
Serge Tornay: Mai 1973 – Souvenir d’une rencontre avec Ivo Strecker en pays kara, sur la rive est de l’Omo
David MacDougall: Camera and Eye
E. Douglas Lewis: The Limits of Interpretation – A Meditation on the Seen and Unseen in a Photograph of Stephen A. Tyler
Section 3 – Misso
Karl-Heinz Kohl: Nomadismus, Heimat und das Gelobte Land
Christian Meyer: The Grammar of Practice – Structure, Agency, and their Social-Theoretical Middle
Stephen A. Tyler: The Pluralization of Discourse and the Decline of General Persuasion
Section 4 – Bel
Robert Hariman: Finding the Yes in No – Persistence, Astonishment, Resonance, and Abundance in Ivo’s World
Shauna LaTosky: Visual Rhetoric and the Case of “Striking Bracelets” in Mun (Mursi)
Michael Carrithers: How to Open a World 1 – Humanism as Method
Section 5 – Kanna
Jon Abbink: The Religious Soundscape of Ethiopia – “Noise” Production between Sacred and the Secular Spaces
Marco Bassi: Prophecy and Apocalypse among the Oromo-Borana – The Power of Chiasmus
Judith Beyer: On the Usefulness of Symbolization Theory for Legal Anthropology
Vincenzo Cannada Bartoli: “You Will See How We Are Lying to You” – Talking with Jean and Ivo
Bernhard Streck: Interpretatio Indigena – Translating Indigenous Translations
Section 6 – Tamari Nanna
Susanne Epple: Impeding Rites, Restoring Rights – The Refusal of Ritual Participation in Bashada, Southern Ethiopia
Echi Christina Gabbert / Gino Ballo: Vignette on Panthera pardus – A Fable from Arbore
Felix Girke: “Heritage Behaviour”, “Validating Attention” and the Camera in Southern Ethiopia
Sophia Thubauville: Another Topic Please! Disquiet about Transgender in Ethiopia
Section 7 – Yeskenna
Jérôme Dubosson: Cattle Horn-Shaping – A Millennium Tradition amongst North-Eastern African Pastoralists
Mitiku Gabrehiwot: A Conversation in the Dark – Ivo Strecker in Addi Gudom, Tigray
Chikage Oba-Smidt: Insult and Self-Aggrandizement in Boorana Heroic Rhetoric
Gianmarco Salvati: Qebele 16 – The Ambiguous Agora of Mekelle
Appendix
Publications by Ivo Strecker
Under these links you will find further studies of Surmic / Omotic languages and cultures and publications of the contributors:
