Aesthetics need not be bound to art and art objects. The Nilotic cattle-keeping peoples of the southern Sudan are a case in point. Coote examines what he calls the Nilotic "bovine aesthetic," which is ...
In parts of South Sudan, especially among cattle-centric Nilotic communities like the Mundari, cow urine plays a vital cultural role beyond modern hygiene. Herdsmen traditionally bathe with cow urine ...