International audienceAmong the Songhay-Zarma of Niger, a particular ceremony known as the marcanda, takes place during polygamous marriages. During this ceremony, women who descended from war captives, evoke, in song and in absence of a male presence, sexuality, its pleasures and its deviances. In their songs, these particular "seekers" confront taboo subjects and seem to systematically oppose the dominant social values. Versed in both direct (use of vulgar terms) and indirect discourse (metaphors, play on the voices, etc.), the singers establish a kind of complicity with the women in the audience who hear - through the voices of war captives - a set of words they would never be able to utter. Indeed, the only people allowed to sing these ...
This text concerns the humble power of audacious women. In Anôsy (south-east of Madagascar), opportu...
Bensignor François. Mauritanie : Chants de femmes Nemadi. In: Hommes et Migrations, n°1195, février ...
Mossi society describes women's speech as dangerous and destructive, unlike that of men, which is ju...
International audienceAmong the Songhay-Zarma of Niger, a particular ceremony known as the marcanda,...
Revue en ligne: http://mondesanciens.revues.org/index675.htmlInternational audienceThere is, when a ...
Revue en ligne: http://mondesanciens.revues.org/index675.htmlInternational audienceThere is, when a ...
African music is a collective art and plays an important part in African cultures and lifestyles. Ha...
International audienceNoces en paroles chez les Zarma (Niger) is an écho of an ethnopoetic experienc...
Cette étude porte sur les chants polyphoniques masculins d'une population d'éleveurs nomades : les P...
Chez les Songhay-Zarma du Niger, le mariage constitue un rite de passage important au cours duquel u...
De l’Afrique sub-saharienne au Maghreb jusqu’au Brésil, les rites de possession ont les mêmes formes...
Popular music culture enabled women to question gender relations in Kinshasa, one of the most fascin...
Echard Nicole. La participation des femmes au culte de possession hausa : Ader, Niger. In: Les Cahie...
Bedik people, not numerous in East Senegal, are showing during some festivals leaved masks which are...
In the patriarchal, patrilineal and clan-based society of the Arsi Oromo, men have a dominant role a...
This text concerns the humble power of audacious women. In Anôsy (south-east of Madagascar), opportu...
Bensignor François. Mauritanie : Chants de femmes Nemadi. In: Hommes et Migrations, n°1195, février ...
Mossi society describes women's speech as dangerous and destructive, unlike that of men, which is ju...
International audienceAmong the Songhay-Zarma of Niger, a particular ceremony known as the marcanda,...
Revue en ligne: http://mondesanciens.revues.org/index675.htmlInternational audienceThere is, when a ...
Revue en ligne: http://mondesanciens.revues.org/index675.htmlInternational audienceThere is, when a ...
African music is a collective art and plays an important part in African cultures and lifestyles. Ha...
International audienceNoces en paroles chez les Zarma (Niger) is an écho of an ethnopoetic experienc...
Cette étude porte sur les chants polyphoniques masculins d'une population d'éleveurs nomades : les P...
Chez les Songhay-Zarma du Niger, le mariage constitue un rite de passage important au cours duquel u...
De l’Afrique sub-saharienne au Maghreb jusqu’au Brésil, les rites de possession ont les mêmes formes...
Popular music culture enabled women to question gender relations in Kinshasa, one of the most fascin...
Echard Nicole. La participation des femmes au culte de possession hausa : Ader, Niger. In: Les Cahie...
Bedik people, not numerous in East Senegal, are showing during some festivals leaved masks which are...
In the patriarchal, patrilineal and clan-based society of the Arsi Oromo, men have a dominant role a...
This text concerns the humble power of audacious women. In Anôsy (south-east of Madagascar), opportu...
Bensignor François. Mauritanie : Chants de femmes Nemadi. In: Hommes et Migrations, n°1195, février ...
Mossi society describes women's speech as dangerous and destructive, unlike that of men, which is ju...