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Commensality, process and the moral order: an example from southern Ethiopia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 December 2011

John Hamer
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Résumé

Le rituel du partage de nourriture par les anciens est présenté ici comme servant de métaphore pour le code culturel des Sadāma d'Éthiopie. Ceci est une façon de démontrer que le rituel autour de la consommation de nourriture change tout aussi bien que les événements socio-politiques, et que ce rituel doit être continuellement l'object de discussion et de débat afin d'arriver à un consensus sur la question d'exatitude “commensale”. Ce processus de rituels élaborés constitue une comparaison entre la manière consensuelle par laquelle les anciens doivent faire la politique et celle par laquelle ils doivent apaiser les disputes. Cet article montre qu'il y a des limites bien déterminées à ce système et aux valeurs du code culturel au-delà des frontières de “Sidāmoland”. Ceci sert à mettre au point le dilemme actuel entre le gouvernement et les relations ethniques en Afrique.

Type
The plasticity of public ritual
Information
Africa , Volume 64 , Issue 1 , January 1994 , pp. 126 - 144
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Copyright © International African Institute 1994

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