Ou tu me donnes une femme ou je reprends ma petite sœur

A number of folktales ask how blood relatives can change from a binary kinship relationship into the triangular marital one that is the foundation of all social life. These tales offer variations on an identical topic : two orphans — brother and sister - are separated because the latter is raped. The stories end differently but always teach the same lesson. The preeminence of the blood relationship between brother and sister is reaffirmed within the dynamices of social mecanism ; in this type of society the sister, through her transitive function normally opens the way to her brother for matrimonial and political alliances. The specificity of the Fulani appears through the omnipresence of cattle at the center os strategies for establishing social relationships

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