Mossi Joking

Hammond, Peter B.

doi:10.2307/3772882

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“…These two types of relations coexist and complement each other. Joking relations compensate for the more rigid respect relations and constitute a socially approved strategy for coping with conflicts inherent in the latter and for defusing tensions (Canut and Smith ; Hammond ). Likewise, Alma Gottlieb's () analysis of Beng (Ivory Coast) matri‐ and patriclans shows some similarity between these groupings and badenya and fadenya: The matriclan is associated with “identity/sameness” and the patriclan with “difference.” Gottlieb shows how they overlap in a complex way, sometimes opposed, sometimes complementary, each sharing characteristics of the other…”

Section: Sibling Relations: Badenyamentioning

confidence: 99%

The strength of badenya ties: Siblings and social security in old age—the case of urban Burkina Faso

Roth

2014

American Ethnologist

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In urban Burkina Faso, siblings play a decisive role in local social security. Badenya, the unity of children of the same mother, compensates in particular for the economic failure of an eldest son no longer in a position to fulfill his familial duties. Although the institution of badenya is strengthened as it increasingly comes into play to help a family avoid social marginalization, it is also overburdened, which makes its future uncertain. This article enhances the anthropological understanding of kinship by focusing on sibling relationships. Findings are based on interviews conducted between 2007 and 2010 with two generations in households in Bobo‐Dioulasso and on participant‐observation over the course of more than a dozen research stays since 1989.

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Section: Sibling Relations: Badenyamentioning

confidence: 99%

The strength of badenya ties: Siblings and social security in old age—the case of urban Burkina Faso

Roth

2014

American Ethnologist

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“…Most anthropological writings on the subject of joking owe their impetus and direction to the classic articles of Radcliffe-Brown (1940, 1949. Even researchers who have been critical of the arguments presented in these articles, with few exceptions (Miller 1967;Douglas 1968), have conducted their analysis along the lines originally suggested by him (Hammond 1964;Sykes 1966;Sharman 1969;Lundberg 1969;Loudon 1970;Coser 1959;Bradney 1957). We refer to Radcliffe-Brown not so much to criticize and expand upon his ideas, but to distinguish our approach from his and to indicate the main direction of our analysis.…”

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confidence: 99%