| Titre | Ganin ya fi ji / Voir est mieux qu'entendre : lire l'identité sur la peau (Sahel central, XIXe siècle) | |
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| Auteur | Camille Lefebvre | |
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Revue | Critique internationale |
| Numéro | no 68, juillet-septembre 2015 Voir l'histoire : sources visuelles et écriture du regard | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | Thema - Voir l'histoire : sources visuelles et écriture du regard |
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| Page | 39-59 | |
| Résumé anglais |
Ganin ya fi ji/Seeing Is Better than Hearing: Reading Identity on the Skin (Central Sahel, 19th Century) The facial scarring practiced on the African continent is most often considered a matter of ethnic or tribal marking. Influenced by colonial presuppositions, this simplifying reading does not take into consideration the diverse uses to which the practice has been put in different times and places. By analyzing vernacular verbal uses to be found in the Hausa and Kanuri linguistic sources collected in the 19th Century, the present article offers a new look at facial and body scarring practices in the Sahel and central Sahara in the 19th Century. The scars are not generic marks that have been worn in the same way by the entirety of a given group since time immemorial. On the contrary, they reflect dynamic practices serving diverse and ever-evolving purposes (political, identity-based, medical, social, aesthetic). Source : Éditeur (via Cairn.info) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.cairn.info/article.php?ID_ARTICLE=CRII_068_0039 |
