Oikos. An Ethiopian singsong

Oikos is a sound, is home, is ecology. In Ethiopia I met the sweet symphony that made the look a sound. Oikos is a singsong glimpse into an apparently ordered horizon, a horizon that belongs to the complex vision of an intense life participation. The rites of passage are important sequences that men puts in place to cross the liminal zone, of transit that the individuals must cross to mark the transition from one phase, such as childhood, to a subsequent one, such as adulthood. The world known until that moment is going to be replaced by another one. The community organizes, through ritualized ceremonies, his coming into the new world in the new existential landscape. The Jumping Bull, Ukli Bula, is a ritual ceremony performed by Hamer people in Ethiopia. This ceremony marks the passage of men who are of marriageable age.

Born in the small town of Grassano, located in southern Italy, Marina moved to Rome where she also graduated in Cultural Anthropology and where she still lives today. Photography comes into her life as a strong passion and as a medium with strong ethno-anthropological connotations.