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Voix de femmes songhay-zarma du Niger: Entre normes et transgressions [PDF]

, 2012
Revue en ligne: http://mondesanciens.revues.org/index675.htmlInternational audienceThere is, when a man remarries among the Songhay-Zarma of Niger, a specific ritual for polygamous marriages, called the marcanda, in which women, divided into " big " and "
Bornand, Sandra
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A propaganda document in support of the 19th century Caliphate of Ḥamdallāhi: Nūḥ b. al-Ṭāhir al-Fulānī’s “Letter on the appearance of the twelfth caliph” (Risāla fī ẓuhūr al-khalīfa al-thānī ʻashar)

Afriques, 2016
The Caliphate of Ḥamdallāhi, located in the modern Republic of Mali, was founded by Aḥmad Lobbo in 1818 and left behind a huge corpus of Arabic correspondence and dispatches that is mainly unexplored by historians.
Mauro Nobili
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Is Otherness Represented in Songhay-Zarma society ? A case study of the 'Tula' story [PDF]

, 2012
This communication will examine the representations of otherness and identity in a special society: the Songhay-Zarma of Niger. I will analyze how a jasare (griot, who knows and tells the genealogies and the stories of 'noble0 families) narrates the ...
Bornand, Sandra
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A Morphological Borrowing from Central Gur into Songhay

Africana Linguistica, 2023
Despite the considerable attention devoted over recent decades to contact influence on Songhay, the possible role of its Central Gur neighbours to the south has yet to be seriously explored. This paper argues that the relatively rare Songhay verbal noun suffix * -ímì, commonly attributed since Greenberg (1963) to Nilo-Saharan on the basis of rather ...
Souag, Lameen, Eddyshaw, David
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Bentyia (Kukyia): a Songhay–Mande meeting point, and a “missing link” in the archaeology of the West African diasporas of traders, warriors, praise-singers, and clerics

Afriques, 2013
The present tragedy in Mali draws our attention to the divisions, tensions and conflicts between West African ethnic groups, religious persuasions, and populations from different regions, in both the present and the past.
Paulo Fernando de Moraes Farias
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Sociogenèse et territoire dans l'Aribinda (Burkina Faso) : le système foncier et ses enjeux [PDF]

, 1990
Dès la fin du XVIIIe siècle, des groupes humains aux origines ethniques différentes viennent se réfugier dans la petite région sahélienne de l'Aribinda. L'insécurité les confine longtemps sur le site du bourg actuel où, composant les uns avec les autres,
Guillaud, Dominique
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Entre hechicería y antropología

Alteridades, 2017
Se presenta la traducción de una conferencia del profesor Paul Stoller en el tópico Ideas matter/ Hundere, impartida en Oregon State University, Corvallis Oregon, October 27, 2014.
Sergio Armando González Varela, Paul Stoller   +1 more
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Montee et abandon des collines d’occupation de l’age de fer au nord du Burkina Faso [PDF]

, 2006
Au nord du Burkina Faso aucune autre époque culturelle, à l'exception des temps modernes, n'a laissé autant de traces sur une aussi grande surface que l’Age de Fer.
Albert, Klaus-Dieter, Hallier, Maya, Kahlheber, Stefanie, Pelzer, Christoph   +3 more
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In search of cues discriminating West-african accents in French [PDF]

, 2011
International audienceThis study investigates to what extent West-African French accents can be distinguished, based on recordings made in Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Mali and Senegal.
Boula De Mareüil, Philippe, Rouas, Jean-Luc, Yapomo, Manuela   +2 more
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Belief or experience? The anthropologist's dilemma [PDF]

, 2005
As an anthropologist who studies the religious beliefs and practices of others, I have long pondered the role that my own religious experience plays in my work, and I am similarly curious concerning the relationship between personal belief and practice
Bowie, Fiona
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