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- Title
Normes sociales de production et d’usage des huiles végétales au Burkina Faso. Cas des provinces du Sourou et du Yatenga.
- Authors
OUEDRAOGO, Karim; KORBEOGO, Gabin
- Abstract
In certain localities of Burkina Faso, vegetable oil production constitutes a moment of expression of social values, of role valorization, of status positioning of the actors involved in the process. In other words, the scenes of vegetable oil production have very complex socio-anthropological dimensions, but they are very interesting for science. This article analyzes the systems of diffusion of social norms and prescriptions that govern the vegetable oil production chain in the social arenas of Sourou and Yatenga in Burkina Faso. Thus, in vegetable oil production, social norms are presented as an articulated element of an overall system in which categories of actors engage in a kind of "institutional arrangement" for the control and use of the oil resource. From this perspective, this paper further analyzes the social games of belonging, i.e., the social categories that interact in the process, in order to identify the social logics that govern vegetable oil production in customary space. The study used semi-structured interviews, observation and ethnographic case studies as empirical data collection techniques. The results show that despite the know-how and mastery of production techniques, there is a whole set of social codes that are used to give social meaning and value to the resource produced. They also reveal the social boundaries and leeway of the different categories of actors in the diffusion of norms that regulate the production of these oils in these two zones of Burkina Faso.
- Subjects
BURKINA Faso; SOUROU River (Burkina Faso); YATENGA (Burkina Faso : Region); VEGETABLE oils; SOCIAL norms
- Publication
Cahiers de l'IREA, 2023, Issue 49, p65
- ISSN
2492-8267
- Publication type
Article