Tierra McMahon: 'Pop-Up Sheep Shop'

In the annual lead up to Eid al-Kabir [عيد الكبير] in Morocco, sheep spill onto residential streets where they are sold and visited before being brought home for sacrifice. Their presence—and that of the shepherds who share space with them during their sojourns in the cities, often in rented garages as above—is celebrated or reviled, economic, religious, social, sensory, dynamic, undeniable.

Tierra McMahon is a doctoral researcher in Anthropology at the London School of Economics. Her current research investigates the political economy of modernity in Morocco, with attention to three inter-related spheres of activity: sacrifice, sport, and street art.