Fournier Anne. (2019). Marrying the 'Bush Spirits-Parents' : personal destiny and divination among the Sèmè of Burkina Faso. Anthropos, 114 (2), p. 383-397. ISSN 0257-9774.
Titre du document
Marrying the 'Bush Spirits-Parents' : personal destiny and divination among the Sèmè of Burkina Faso
Anthropos, 2019,
114 (2), p. 383-397 ISSN 0257-9774
Among the Sèmè, a little-known society in the Voltaic area, some men receive at home a couple of bush spirits through which they get access to divination. They form groups of followers of the spirits. The rite implemented borrows its fabric from marriage, a long process that extends over a woman's entire life. The follower 'marries' the bush spirits according to an original marriage arrangement without sexuality. Heis bound to these bush spirits by a prenatal promise, his symbolic parents, who guided his soul and formed his character.
Plan de classement
Etudes, transformation, conservation du milieu naturel [082]
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Société, développement social [106]
