Un rituel d'humanisation des nourrissons, le kabuatã manjak. (Guinée-Bissau/Sénégal)

Dados Bibliográficos

ID20180132
AutoresMaria Teixeira (0000-0003-4085-9533, Épidémiologie Clinique, Évaluation Économique Appliquées aux Populations Vulnérables, autor correspondente)
Ano2001
Volume71
Fascículo2
Páginas7-31
Data de publicação2001-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal des africanistes (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0399-0346 • E-ISSN: 1957-7850
EditoraPERSEE Program (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.3406/jafr.2001.1267
OpenAlexW2083768710
IdiomaFR
Citações recebidas6
Referências citadas1

Manjak mothers who have lost all their previous children at a young age, submit themselves, following divination, to the kabuatã fertility rite, in the course of which they undergo a change of identity and accompany their newborn's transformation. For three years, the infant, who remains linked to both the visible and the invisible world, is shaped so as to fixate the child in the world of men and to construct his or her humanity. The symbolism linked to bodily fluids and excretions discloses the workings of divinatory language, the sacrifice and reveals Manjak representations of childhood

Aesthetics · Art · Divination · Ethnology · Humanities · Humanity · Literature · Rite · Rite of passage · Sociology · Theology · African Studies and Ethnography · Aging, Elder Care, and Social Issues · Anthropology · History · Migration, Identity, and Health · Philosophy