Un barde, des scribes, et la geste du Songhay
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3664754 |
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| Authors | Jean-Pierre Olivier De Sardan (0000-0001-7273-3498, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1990 |
| Volume | 30 |
| Issue | 118 |
| Pages | 205-210 |
| Publication date | 1990-01-01 |
| 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.1990.1622 |
| OpenAlex | W2060708146 |
| Language | FR |
J.-P. Olivier de Sardan-A Bard, Scribes and the Songhai Epie. Can an ideology of ethnie authenticity, which takes local beliefs in magie to be a form of 'resistance' against Islam, serve to set the 'Islamic culture' of scribes and Arabie chronicles at odds with the 'traditional Songhai culture' conveyed by bards and griots"} Thomas Hale's attempt to set up this opposition is critieized. Empiri-cal data fit better a distinction between scholarly Islam and a syncretic popular culture (itself a mixture of Islamic references and more or less transformed 'traditional' beliefs
Archaeology · Art · Humanities · Ideology · Islam · Islamic culture · Odds · Opposition (politics) · Political science · Politics · Sociology · African history and culture analysis · Anthropology · Computer Science · Eurasian Exchange Networks · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History
| Highly cited | No |
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