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Avvicinarsi agli antenati. Tradizione orale e autorità nel paese Anno
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In this article the author deals with a less explored aspect of oral tradition in Africa, namely its relations to the definition of social categories based on age and gender. Using the conceptual framework of Pascal Boyer’s theory of tradition, criterias of legitimation and enablement regarding utterances of “traditional truth” in the Anno society are investigated. The study shows how the uttering of truth concerning the past, as well as the exclusive right of the elders to utter such truth, is not based on their mastery of a definite corpus of knowledge. What elders really master is an undisputed control over the reality which traditional utterances about the past refer to: the world of ancestors, a world which they are considered to be linked to through an “essential” quality attributed to their person
Stranieri in casa propria.
No full textL'articolo opera un'analisi del conflitto in Costa d'Avorio, evidenziando il problema della cittadinaza avoriana come suo perno centrale
V. Lusini, Destinazione mondo. Forme e politiche dell'alterità nell'arte contemporanea. Verona, Ombre Corte, 2013.
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Dominique Casajus, Fabio Viti, sous la direction de, 2012, Le terre et le pouvoir. À la mémoire de Michel Izard, Paris, Cnrs Éditions, pp. IV, 307.
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Michel Izard, Paris, Cnrs Éditions, pp. IV, 307
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No full textIl saggio esplora la logica costruttiva delle terminologie di parentela Crow-Omaha, mettendo in rilievo l'esigensa di estendere l'analisi oltre il vocabolario della consanguineità, e mostrando il ruolo cruciale di quello di affinità
« Anita Jacobson-Widding, Chapungu : The Bird that Never Drops a Feather. Male and Female Identities in an African Society »,
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Modernity, autochthony and the Ivorian Nation. The end of a century in Ivory Coast
No full textIn the mid-1990’s, Ivory Coast witnessed the rise of the ideology of ivoirité, a conception of citizenship based on autochthonous origins. Ivoirité was elaborated by a group of Ivorian intellectuals in the context of the political struggle opposing Henry Konan Bedié to Alassane Ouattara in the succession to the late president Houphouët-Boigny. Through the tactic use of the rhetorics of ivoirité, Ouattara was depicted by his adversaries as a “Burkinabé” trying to rule the country. Going beyond this tactic aspect, the article addresses the ideological relations linking ivoirité to a “project of a Ivorian liberal society” explicitly constructed by the same intellectuals. These relations contributed to the emergence, in the Ivorian public space, of a discourse establishing self-evident, hegemonic connections between notions like autochthony, modernity, nationality and biopolitical concepts like ‘population’, ‘immigration’, ‘security’ and ‘resources’. Such an emergence is framed in two complementary perspectives: on the one hand focusing its graft on the historical continuity of the political-economic strategies and population policies implemented by colonial governamentality and by postcolonial elites. On the other hand, using Giorgio Agamben’s critical enquiry on citizenship and nationality, the implications of the ivoirité intellectuals in the construction of a national bios is brought to light, and so their contribute to the singling out of a paradigmatic form of bare life
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