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SENUFO AND THE SPECTER OF TRANSFIGURATION
European Journal of Social Sciences Studies
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SENUFO AND THE SPECTER OF TRANSFIGURATION
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Diarassouba, Sidiky
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Senufo, Mandingo, patronymics, denaturation, transfiguration, culture and identity
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The Senufo peoples in West Africa and in Côte d’Ivoire, in particular, have suffered a double colonization, including that of the Mandingo who have had the most penetrating and pervasive cultural and linguistic impact on them. Mandingo loan surnames within the Senufo communities are quite an edifying example. Although many members of these communities are complaisant about these loan names, over the years, increasing numbers of Senufo have expressed the desire to recover their ancient surname. Amidst this movement, a line on the sly, both insidious and alarming, has been firmly taking place. Indeed, some Senufo, more often than not, senior executives and icons of the Senufo communities, have abandoned the ancestral surname to adopt a new surname – the first or middle name of their father or a revered ancestor. Given the dimensions of Senufo names and surnames, what justifies this adoption? In what ways does this endangers the survival of the Senufo identity? It turns out that this practice is in line with a pseudo capricious desire for a search of originality which, unfortunately, takes on the appearance of a fad. This very situation surreptitiously presages another chaos regarding the cultural identity within the confines of the Senufo linguistic and cultural group. Article visualizations:
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European Journal of Social Sciences Studies
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2016-08-07
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info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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application/pdf
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http://oapub.org/soc/index.php/EJSSS/article/view/24
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European Journal of Social Sciences Studies; Volume 1, Issue 1, 2016
2501-8590 2501-8590 |
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eng
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http://oapub.org/soc/index.php/EJSSS/article/view/24/65
http://oapub.org/soc/index.php/EJSSS/article/view/24/66 http://oapub.org/soc/index.php/EJSSS/article/view/24/67 |
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Copyright (c) 2016 Sidiky Diarassouba
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