Mitteilungen: Mitteilungen, 50.2018

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Titel:: Mitteilungen, 50.2018

Erscheinungsort:: Berlin

Verlag:: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie e.V., c/o Institut für Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie, Freie Universität Berlin

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Rezensionen Abbink, Jon, Michael Bryant, and Daniel Bambu: Suri Orature. Introduction to the Society, Language, and Oral Culture of the Suri People (Southwest Ethiopia). Köln: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, 2013. 203 pp. ISBN 978-3- 39645-289-4. (Verbal Art and Documentary Literature in African Languages / Wortkunst und Dokumentartexte in afrikanischen Sprachen, 33) Price: € 29.80 For people who want an excellent overview of Suri S0ciety, language, and oral culture, this thoughtful and well-written book will be very useful. Divided into four Darts: “Suri Society,” “Suri Language,” “Orature — Sam- oles from the “Literature” of an Oral Culture,” and “A Suri View on Suri Life and Society — Daniel Bambu’s Accounts,” this book brings together the long-term eX- Jeriences of anthropologist Jon Abbink, linguist Michael Bryant, and mission-educated Suri Daniel Bambu, whose stories are featured in the last section of the book. Let Me begin by briefly discussing the basic contents of each Dart and its merits. Then I will raise a couple of critical Points, although I find the book overall to be a clearly Presented and straightforward overview of Suri language and orature. The introduction (Part 1) pulls together various strands of Suri society from “arts, crafts, and trade” to “conflict,” "religion,” and “traditional medicine.” Drawing on his Sthnographic research in Suri since the early 1990s, Ab- dink provides a lucid summary of the rapidly changing Sulture of the Suri (which includes Tirmaga, Chai, and Baale) and situates their current “Challenges of an uncer- 'ain future” (21 f.). These challenges, which are synonyY- Mous with large-scale agro-development, hydroelectric dams, and government plans to sedentarise the Suri help io Contextualise why the Suri find themselves “in a state 9 insecurity and transition” today (21). . Part 2 provides readers with the linguistic and techni- cal ins and outs of one of the Surmic languages. Bryant Jegins by making the point that Suri is an ethnonym that Jescribes a people, not a language. This is an important Point, since the Tirmaga-Chai-Baale are often lumped to- Sether as agro-pastoralists who “share the cultural prac- ces of ceremonial stick duelling by men and the wear- Ing of lip plates by women” (25) and are falsely assumed lo speak “Suri.” However, as he clearly shows, the three Stoups might be culturally similar, but they differ linguils- Ucally. Throughout this section he highlights various dis- Anctions between Tirmaga and Chai, who speak a South- Sast Surmic language, and Baale, who speak a Southwest Surmic language, and provides a typological overview of Tirmaga. Like Chai and Baale, Tirmaga (formerly Tirma) s a tonal language with “a full set of implosives” (27). Part 3 introduces the various genres of Suri orature, of which there are at least eleven basic genres (104). Read- ars not only interested in the linguistic structure of the language can find rich summaries at the end of each sam- ale of folktales, public discussions, and traditional songs. These are verbal art forms in their own right, which, es- pecially in the case of personal-history songs (which, in Mursi, are also referred to as “personal praise songs”), possess a historical reality with such depth that only a cer- 'ain Suri “insider” (e.g., member of a certain clan) would understand (141). The final section (Part 4) is most useful as an account hrough which the lived experiences of Daniel Bambu are distilled and made meaningful as a historical and bio- zraphical sketch of a Tirmaga man. While Bambu’s per- spectives are, at times, distinctively shaped by his mission education, common threads shared by non-Christian Suri zan certainly be found and will no doubt “inspire other Suri to sincerely reflect and express themselves on some »f the issues that the Suri are currently wrestling with ...” (156). Most readers will arrive at the end of this section with the feeling that they want to read and learn more about Bambu’s challenging life experiences. There are only two issues I wish to raise more as crit- ‘cal comments, rather than technical or stylistic faults within the book. The first has to do with the linguistic analysis. While Bryant does an excellent job to break hings down for ordinary, general readers, the analyis of Tirmaga grammar still assumes some basic linguistic skills. Although the focus of the book is oral culture, for ıntrained Suri students, or educators interested in com- municating, teaching, or writing in Tirmaga, Chai, and Baale, one small wish would have been to include a ba- sic linguistic summary outlining the main differences be- ‚ween Tirmaga-Chai-Baale languages. While Abbink, Bryant, and Bambu successfully bring ınto focus the general types of oratory in Suri, it would have also been interesting to hear more about the context in which certain types of orature are delivered, how wom- an’s oratory is different from and similar to that of men’s, ar how it might be compared to or contrasted with the ora- re of neighbouring groups. Although the matter of ex- oluding women’s oral culture is raised in the beginning, ‘he authors never allude to why comparisons with women Anthropos 110.2015

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