Ethno-patronymic correspondences and jocular kinship: a large scale problem of integration

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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.