L' « ethnicisation » de la société peule du Borgou (Bénin)

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ID3663300
AuthorsMartine Guichard (Max Planck Society, corresponding author)
Year1990
Volume30
Issue117
Pages17-44
Publication date1990-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCahiers d études africaines (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0008-0055 • E-ISSN: 1777-5353
PublisherPERSEE Program (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.3406/cea.1990.2125
OpenAlexW1970015783
LanguageFR
Citations received8

M. Guichard - Developing an Ethnie Identity : The Fulani of Benin. The Borgou-Fulani Society in Benin differs from that in Cameroon and Nigeria in two important ways. The Fulani of Benin are an ethnie minority, and further-more, they have not played a politically dominant role either in colonial or postcolonial times. The Fulani civil servants recently served as intermediaries between the state and the Fulani ethnie group are attempting to force the integration of bush Fulani into the larger nation-state. Paradoxically, the development of a Fulani ethnie consciousness is also being promoted through the exploitation of certain Fulani-specific character traits (pulaaku) and a reassessment of the oppo-sitional relationships between Fulбe-Haaбe, Fulбe-Gando, and Fulбe siire-Fulбe ladde. Although intellectuals of the Ful6e ladde have succeeded in establishing new patronage /leadership structures and in endowing certain character traits with social importance, their ability to absorb the rural Fulani appears to have been limited by passive resistance

Ethnology · Geography · Identity (music) · Sociology · African history and culture studies · African Studies and Ethnography · Agriculture and Rural Development Research · Anthropology · Philosophy

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