" My Arse for Akou ". A Wartime Ritual of Women on the Nineteenth-Century Gold Coast
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Résumé A. Jones — Un rituel de guerre féminin sur la Côte de l'Or au XIXe siècle. Cet article traite d'un rituel qui était pratiqué en temps de guerre par les femmes de la région correspondant au sud du Ghana et à l'est de la Côte-dTvoire actuels. Ce rituel revêt de nombreux aspects tels que la dance, les discours de louange et d'exécration, les prières, différentes sortes de symbolisme, des conduites obscènes (nudité), l'inversion des rôles et les injures lancées aux hommes lâches. La plupart de ces traits peuvent être actuellement observés au sein d'un rituel dénommé mmobomme en langue twi, mais la fonction et le sens de ces phénomènes ont probablement changé par rapport à la situation qui prévalait autrefois. Cet article tente de montrer combien il est difficile d'interpréter ce qui est écrit de ce rituel dans les documents du XIXe siècle.
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