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La fête de l'homme riche dans le golfe de Guinée au temps de l'esclavage, XVIIe-XIXe siècles
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Memel-Fotê, Harris |
| Copyright Year | 1993 |
| Abstract | H. Memel-Fote — The Rich Man's Festival in the Gulf of Guinea during the Slave Trade, 17th-19th Centuries. ; The author proposes an analysis of the evolution of the socio-political category of the "rich men". This evolution is recounted from the emergence of this new social class born on the coast out of the slave trade, to its spreading in the whole Akan area, more specifically among the age set societies where the intrusion of this new social category produced varying effects depending on whether the age set reinforces or on the contrary counterbalances the political hierarchy. ; The rich man's festival is the occasion for a number of ceremonies taking place in differents places and at different times, implying enormous expenses and thus a redistribution of goods. Their formal identity and structural homogeneity allow one to speak of those festivals in terms of art, in the ethnological as well as anthropological meaning. ; |
| Starting Page | 363 |
| Ending Page | 379 |
| Page Count | 17 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.3406/cea.1993.1504 |
| Volume Number | 33 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.persee.fr/docAsPDF/cea_0008-0055_1993_num_33_131_1504.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.3406/cea.1993.1504 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
