Le lien de sève et la maison paternelle
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Bonds of “Sap” and the Paternal House. At the Roots of the JafunBe Fulani Sense of Identity in Samoland. — Among the Jafunße Fulani in Samoland, “sap” is the substance at the origin of life in the three animate categories. The quite special bonds instituted between specific sorts of animals and plants with human lineage groups (“houses”) shed light on relations of opposition and complementarity underlying social bonds. The work of giving the person “roots” in the social sphere (in the “paternal house”) is performed during adolescence. In the twofold natural process of “creating others” – perception (a process wherein illusions are not absent) and projection – the cognitive representations associated with the “spaces of belonging” and “foreign spaces” grant importance to the intermediate, transitional “space of slaves”.
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Aboubacar Barry, “Le lien de sève et la maison paternelle”, L’Homme, 163 | 2002, 137-156.
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Aboubacar Barry, “Le lien de sève et la maison paternelle”, L’Homme [Online], 163 | juillet-sptembre 2002, Online since 03 July 2007, connection on 29 March 2024. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/lhomme/175; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/lhomme.175
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