Société baule précoloniale et modèle segmentaire. Le cas de la région de Kokumbo

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ID3668506
AuthorsJean‐pierre Chauveau (corresponding author), Jean-Pierre Chauveau
Year1977
Volume17
Issue68
Pages415-434
Publication date1977-01-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCahiers d études africaines (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0008-0055 • E-ISSN: 1777-5353
PublisherPERSEE Program (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.3406/cea.1977.2424
OpenAlexW2063633838
LanguageFR
Citations received7

J.-P. Chauveau-Precolonial Baule Society and the Seg-mentary Model. Most authors have described Baule social structure as segmentary and hardly hierarchized. This interpretation leads to the inclusion as primary data of facts which are rather a logical consequence of the model itself. An analysis of the actual working of the kinship system and of social unequality reveals phenomena at a deviance from the segmentary model, such as status groups and protoclasses, reproducing themselves according to a statistical pattern characteristic of complex, unequalitarian societies. Hence a new interpretation of Baule social structure starting from a well defined historical and economic context rather than from an attempt to explain the deviance of sortie segmentary ideology from the actual precolonial socio-economic situation. This may well lead to question the heuristic validity of the segmentary model, or of some of its implications

Deviance (statistics) · Epistemology · Humanities · Ideology · Interpretation (philosophy) · Kinship · Linguistics · Political science · Sociology · Statistics · Agriculture and Rural Development Research · Anthropology · Mathematics · Philosophy

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