Question d’identité
Abstracts
Question of Identity. The Inheritance of the Maternal Uncle’s Widow among the Dìì (North Cameroon). – This article resurrects an old problem evoqued by Radcliffe-Brown which he left unresolved: the inheritance of the maternal uncle’s wife by his uterine nephew. This inheritance is found in many diverse societies, concurrently with other types of inheritance. These respective inheriting logics are here analysed among the Dìì of Adamawa and the neighbors they know. These dialectical choices between the contrasted heritages are grounded on a quasi identity between uncle and nephew and another identity, albeit different, linking the agnatic “brothers”. The choice must be between one or the other.
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Keywords :
matrilinéarité, patrilinéarité, double descendance, atome de parenté, Dìì, Cameroun, AdamaouaKeywords:
matrilineal descent, patrilineal descent, double descent, atom of kinship, Cameroon, AdamawaReferences
Bibliographical reference
Jean-Claude Muller, “Question d’identité”, L’Homme, 166 | 2003, 87-106.
Electronic reference
Jean-Claude Muller, “Question d’identité”, L’Homme [Online], 166 | avril-juin 2003, Online since 08 September 2008, connection on 28 March 2024. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/lhomme/219; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/lhomme.219
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