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Title:Ethno-patronymic correspondences and jocular kinship: a large scale problem of integration
Author:Ndiaye, A. RaphaëlISNI
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.
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