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Disquiet is inherent to the idea of sacrificial slaughter. Meintjes asks how song and dance work upon that disquiet at a rural Zulu wedding, in which cattle slaughter is a centerpiece. The paper situates disquiet in hard times, referencing foundational Africanist work on cattle exchange and interspecies approaches to valued relations.
About the Speaker
Louise Meintjes (SHC Fellow '02) is the Marcello Lotti Professor of Music and Cultural Anthropology at Duke, author of Dust of the Zulu: Ngoma Aesthetics after Apartheid (Duke University Press, 2003), and working on a project titled The Sonics of Sacrifice: Zulu Cattle Aesthetics in a Rugged Ecology.
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