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Title:Avvicinarsi agli antenati: tradizione orale e autorità nel paese Anno
Author:Cutolo, ArmandoISNI
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.
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