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- Title
L’ethnie du Masque samo .
- Authors
BARRY, Aboubacar
- Abstract
Samo people are generally considered by ethnologists as being composed of two or three groups which are culturally different, excessively identified under the same term. The existence of the cult of masks in some villages of the South area reinforces the conviction that these groups are different. In his thesis of History defended at Sorbonne in 1994, Jean-Célestin Ky starts from this remark; he studies meticulously the way this cult of masks is practised in the South of the Samo land comparing it with rituals observed by their neighbours Bwaba, Moosé, Dogon, Lyela, Kurumba. It highlights the specificity of this practice in the Samo area and tends to show that it is about an imported cult, not necessary for the cultural life of the group.
- Subjects
ETHNOLOGISTS; MASKS; RITUALS (Liturgical books); ETHNICITY; VILLAGES
- Publication
Cahiers de l'IREA, 2022, Issue 46, p173
- ISSN
2492-8267
- Publication type
Article