Les génies du Kòma. Identités locales, logiques religieuses et enjeux socio-politiques dans les monts Manding du Mali

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ID3621079
AuthorsClemens Zobel (corresponding author)
Year1996
Volume36
Issue144
Pages625-658
Publication date1996-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCahiers d études africaines (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0008-0055 • E-ISSN: 1777-5353
PublisherPERSEE Program (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.3406/cea.1996.1860
OpenAlexW2051439246
LanguageFR
Citations received5
References cited2

The Spirit of the Kàma: Local Identities, Religious Mentalities and Sociopolitical Issues in the Manding Mountains. - Seeking to restore an original state of purity, studies of the Kôma (or Kômô), a religious association, have tended to overlook exchanges between, on the one hand, local religious practices and conceptions, and, on the other, Islam. Discourses about the Maninka Kômaw (in the Manding mountains, a region considered to be the cradle of Mande civilization) express these interactions, which, depending on the political circumstances, vary between the two poles of identity as a Moslem or 'heathen'. The current emphasis placed on the Kôma 'spirits' (rather than on ritual objects) is a sign of a new phase of reconciliation with Islam. This emphasis on the « spirits » also legitimates the Kôma's leadership by social groups that hâve been formally barred from traditional political offices. This does not however compromise this association's conservative nature. In the likeness of Manden political (lineage) institutions, the Kôma represents both an unpredictable force coming from outside the society, and also the order that elders previously established

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