Voix de femmes songhay-zarma du Niger
There is, when a man remarries among the Songhay-Zarma of Niger, a specific ritual for polygamous marriages, called the marcanda, in which women, divided into « big » and « little » wives, engage in a verbal joust and then sing together. During this ritual, singers of captive descent sometimes perfo...
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| Language: | English |
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Anthropologie et Histoire des Mondes Antiques
2012-05-01
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| Series: | Cahiers Mondes Anciens |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/mondesanciens/675 |