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Mossi joking
Ethnology • III (3) • Published In 1964 • Pages: 259-267
By: Hammond, Peter B..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
The author presents this paper a a tentative step in the reformulation of the '…various and disparate observations on joking in the anthropological literature.' He contends that an analysis of this literature would indicate that when joking has become institutionalized, the structural relationship between the participating parties would be characterized by '…five significantly interrelated structural attributes: separation, reciprocity, ambivalence, equality and independence' which he illustrates with data obtained from the Yatenga Mossi. These data treat specifically of the mother's brother, mother's brother's wife joking relationships, siblings-in-law joking relationships, joking between sibs (i.e. lineages), joking between age-sets, intervillage joking, and joking between ethnic groups. Joking as a psychological adjustive mechanism, and a means of social control are also discussed. 266-267.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Social relationships and groups
- Humor
- Avuncular and nepotic relatives
- Lineages
- Real property
- Age stratification
- Siblings-in-law
- Cult of the dead
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Mossi
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2009
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Africa
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Western Africa
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 1965
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1954-1956
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1954-1956
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Burkina Faso
- NotesAdditional notes
- Peter B. Hammond
- 'SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS AND GROUPS' (571) has been used for information on Mossi joking relationships. Footnotes have not been indexed.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 267)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 64005713
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Mossi (African people)