Système de mariages et terminologies de la parenté chez les Mossi. Contribution à l'approche de la terminologie omaha
(2013) L’Homme — n° 206, p. 58-88 (2013)
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- (en) Marriage Systems and Kinship Terminology among the Mossi Mossi kinship terminology, classified in the vast Omaha category, does not have to do directly with terms for marriage but, instead, with the performance of ritual behaviour that, sometimes ambivalent, scrupulously regulate (as indicate d by elements in the context) relations between persons. These relations seriously orient plans for matrimonial alliances as part of a marriage system that should be seen as a whole. The principle of an « oblique switch » around Ego indicates both who is replacing whom and, too, the status involved, the purpose being to enforce the agreements passed between lineages during previous generations. Through this process, the pacts of marital alliance for bestowing women as wives can be transmitted from generation to generation, once the current generation, which has inherited the agreements from its predecessors, does everything necessary to enforce the appropriate behaviour.
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Laurent, P.-J. (2013). Système de mariages et terminologies de la parenté chez les Mossi. Contribution à l’approche de la terminologie omaha. L’Homme, 206, 58-88. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/81841 (Original work published 2013)