%0 Journal Article
%9 ACL : Articles dans des revues avec comité de lecture répertoriées par l'AERES
%A Fournier, Anne
%T Marrying the 'Bush Spirits-Parents' : personal destiny and divination among the Sèmè of Burkina Faso
%D 2019
%L fdi:010077694
%G ENG
%J Anthropos
%@ 0257-9774
%K BURKINA FASO
%M ISI:000519765000005
%N 2
%P 383-397
%R 10.5771/0257-9774-2019-2-383
%U https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010077694
%> https://www.documentation.ird.fr/intranet/publi/depot/2020-03-30/010077694.pdf
%V 114
%W Horizon (IRD)
%X 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.
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