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  <dc:title>Marrying the 'Bush Spirits-Parents' : personal destiny and divination among the S&#xE8;m&#xE8; of Burkina Faso</dc:title>
  <dc:creator>/Fournier, Anne</dc:creator>
  <dc:description>Among  the  S&#xE8;m&#xE8;,  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.</dc:description>
  <dc:date>2019</dc:date>
  <dc:type>text</dc:type>
  <dc:identifier>https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010077694</dc:identifier>
  <dc:identifier>fdi:010077694</dc:identifier>
  <dc:identifier>Fournier Anne. Marrying the 'Bush Spirits-Parents' : personal destiny and divination among the S&#xE8;m&#xE8; of Burkina Faso. 2019, 114 (2),  383-397</dc:identifier>
  <dc:language>EN</dc:language>
  <dc:coverage>BURKINA FASO</dc:coverage>
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