Consumption, Prostitution, and Reproduction

The Poetics of Sweetness in Bori

Bibliographic Data

ID2467218
AuthorsAdeline Masquelier (Tulane University, corresponding author)
Year1995
Volume22
Issue4
Pages883-906
Publication date1995-11-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Ethnologist (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0094-0496 • E-ISSN: 1548-1425
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1525/ae.1995.22.4.02a00120
OpenAlexW1968944728
LanguageEN
Citations received12
References cited42

In this article I explore the semantics of sweetness among the Hausaphone Mawri of Niger. I show how the various configurations of sweetness meaningfully unify the contexts of prostitution, spirit possession, and obstetrics for some Mawri struggling to make sense of changing social realities. These interrelated experiences of production and reproduction in turn provide an idiom for expressing concretely the temptations of consumer culture and the dangers of uncontrolled consumption in contemporary Niger

Aesthetics · Biology · Consumption (sociology · Linguistics · Poetics · Poetry · Possession (linguistics · Reproduction · Social science · Sociology · Sweetness · Taste · African history and culture analysis · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Ecology · Gender Studies · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · Philosophy · Psychology

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