| Titre | Résidence, tenure foncière, alliance dans une société bilinéaire (Serer du Sine et du Baol, Sénégal). | |
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| Auteur | Marguerite Dupire, André Lericollais, Bernard Delpech, Jean-Marc Gastellu | |
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Revue | Cahiers d'études africaines |
| Numéro | Vol. 14, no 55, 1974 | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | Études et essais |
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| Page | 417-452 | |
| Résumé anglais |
M. Dupire, A. Lericollais, B. Delpech et J.-M. Gastellu — Residence, Land Tenure and Marriage in a Double-Descent Society: The Serer from the Sine and Baol Regions of Senegal. This society is characterized by virilocal residence, double-descent, and matrilineal inheritance of non-consumable goods. Residential compounds are inherited in both the agnatic and the uterine lines, the relative proportion of each type of succession varying in the four villages under study. A compound may be divided into 'wards', 'kitchens', and, further down, 'uterine huts', each of these units corresponding to a specifie economic function. Starting from K. Gough's five types of residential categories, we define seven different patterns, the form most frequently found being the patrilocal extended family, the elementary family and a composite type of avuncular family, in that order. There is a significant correlation between residence patterns and inheritance of traditional offices. 'Kitchens' differ from compounds insofar as they can be matrilocal and chiefly consist of elementary families. While married sons often live in the same 'kitchen' with their fathers, nephews seldom cohabit with their MB. The 'uterine hut' is the primary unit of economic accumulation. The bilineal pattern of inheritance is also found in the four-level System of land-rights, with a correlation between land-rights and residence. Residential patterns and pre-ferential marriages tend to counterbalance the dispersal of a matrilineage's women resulting from virilocality. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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