Stereotypic Vision
The "Moral Character" of the Senufo in Colonial and Postcolonial Discourse
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3636054 |
|---|---|
| Authors | R Launay (0000-0002-6916-0219, Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1999 |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue | 154 |
| Pages | 271-292 |
| Publication date | 1999-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Cahiers d études africaines (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0008-0055 • E-ISSN: 1777-5353 |
| Publisher | PERSEE Program (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3406/cea.1999.1312 |
| PMID | 19839122 |
| OpenAlex | W1976776907 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 1 |
The most enduring legacy of the colonial ethnographie literature on the Senufo of northern Côte-d'Ivoire has been its weakest and ideologically most suspect feature: descriptions of the "caracteres intellectuels et moraux" of the people in question. Such considerations, absent as such from the literature of exploration, were first elaborated by Maurice Delafosse in the first decade of the twentieth century and repeatedly invoked throughout the colonial period. Paradoxically, the direct heirs to this questionable legacy have been certain Senufo intellectuals. By examining the various avatars, colonial and postcolonial, of the "Senufo character", we can trace not only the formation of a particular "ethnic" discourse but its recuperation and ultimately its transformation
Archaeology · Art · Character (mathematics) · Colonialism · Ethnic group · Ethnology · Ideology · Linguistics · Literature · Political science · Politics · Sociology · TRACE (psycholinguistics) · African Studies and Ethnography · Agriculture and Rural Development Research · Anthropology · Cultural Identity and Heritage · History · Law · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,1 |
| Citation span | 2005 - 2010 (6) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |