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Title: | Ethno-patronymic correspondences and jocular kinship: a large scale problem of integration |
Author: | Ndiaye, A. Raphaël |
Year: | 1993 |
Periodical: | African Environment: Environmental Studies and Regional Planning Bulletin |
Volume: | 8 |
Issue: | 31-32 |
Pages: | 93-124 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | West Africa |
Subjects: | social networks joking relationships |
Abstract: | This paper shows how in West Africa, throughout history and still today, jocular kinship, alone or combined with ethno-patronymic correspondences, has played an important role and can still be of real use in the formulation and practice of a political programme of subregional or regional integration. The bearers of equivalent patronyms have a relationship of proximity whether they belong to the same ethnic group or a different one. Jocular kinship relations - or kinship with jokes - concern individual relationships, patronymic families, matrilinearity, castes and professions, villages, regions and ethnic groups. They are practised from the Senegalese coast to the Lake Chad basin. Bibliogr., notes, ref. |