On bushbucks without horns

Male and female initiation among the Aluund of Southwest Zaïre

Datos Bibliográficos

ID14769802
AutoresFilip De Boeck (0000-0003-2510-0457, autor de correspondencia)
Año1991
Volumen61
Número1
Páginas37-71
Fecha de publicación1991-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal des africanistes (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0399-0346 • E-ISSN: 1957-7850
EditorialPERSEE Program (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.3406/jafr.1991.2306
OpenAlexW2165855986
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas9
Referencias citadas1

On bushbucks without horns : male and female among the Aluund of Southwest Zaïre. Among the Aluund of southwestern Zaïre, the mwiingoony is open to all circumcised men ; and the chiwiil, to all women who have undergone menarche rites. To initiate men and women into these « sodalities » means transforming them from « bushbucks without horns » (the uninitiated) into knowledgeable initiates so that they acquire a practical awareness of their distinct, yet interdependent, male and female body-selves, of the alternative models of Luunda gender relations, and of the social responsibilities of manhood and womanhood. Light is shed on these creative, transformative initiatory practices ; and rites are analyzed sequentially as a processual bodily action and a generative process of meaning production

Action (physics · Generative grammar · Liminality · Linguistics · Meaning (existential · Pedagogy · Sociology · Transformative learning · African Studies and Ethnography · African Studies and Geopolitics · Agriculture and Rural Development Research · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Philosophy · Psychology