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Periodical article | Leiden University catalogue | WorldCat |
Title: | Avvicinarsi agli antenati: tradizione orale e autorità nel paese Anno |
Author: | Cutolo, Armando |
Year: | 1999 |
Periodical: | Africa: rivista trimestrale di studi e documentazione |
Volume: | 54 |
Issue: | 4 |
Pages: | 514-534 |
Language: | Italian |
Geographic term: | Ivory Coast - Côte d'Ivoire |
Subjects: | Ano oral traditions |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/40761413 |
Abstract: | This article examines a little explored aspect of oral tradition in Africa, namely its relation to the definition of social categories based on age and gender. Using the conceptual framework of Pascal Boyer's theory of tradition (1990) as point of departure, the article investigates criteria of legitimation and enablement regarding utterances of 'traditional truth' among the Anno (or Ano) of Côte d'Ivoire. It shows that the exclusive right of the elders to express the truth concerning the past is not based on their mastery of a definite corpus of knowledge. What they do control is the reality to which these oral traditions refer: the world of the ancestors, a world to which the elders are considered to be linked through an 'essential' quality attributed to them. Notes, ref., sum. in English and French, text in Italian. |