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| Title: | Joking Slavery |
| Author: | Launay, Robert |
| Year: | 1977 |
| Periodical: | Africa: Journal of the International African Institute |
| Volume: | 47 |
| Issue: | 4 |
| Pages: | 413-422 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | Ivory Coast - Côte d'Ivoire |
| Subjects: | Dyula slavery joking relationships Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) |
| External links: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/1158346 https://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pao:&rft_dat=xri:pao:article:4011-1977-047-00-000031 |
| Abstract: | The Dyula of northern Ivory Coast consider that joking behaviour is an appropriate mode of social interaction between a variety of categories of persons. For the most part, the kinds of role relationship characterized by joking among the Dyula have long been familiar to anthropologists: 'grandparents' and 'grandchildren', cross-cousins, certain categories of affines. But there is indeed one form of joking which, if not entirely specific to the Dyula, is something of an ethnographic rarity, or else has gone largely unrecorded in the literature: second and subsequent generation slaves can and frequently do joke at the expense of freemen in general. The forms which this joking may take are, in certain respects, atypical of other joking relationships among the Dyula. The author compares joking between slaves and free men with other types of joking relationship. Sections: Introductory - Dyula joking relationships - Joking and the position of slaves. Ref., notes, table, French summary. |
