Year: 2004
Type: article
Abstract: Joking relationships in West Africa illustrate in an original way the tension between ethnocentrism and tolerance, hierarchy and conflict, which lies at the core of the encounter with the “other”. These daily relationships can be read simultaneously as a confirmation of “otherness”’ through the joyful expression of stereotypes’ and the establishment of a sympathetic “closeness” link between joking partners, combining elements of both universalism and parochialism, which should therefore lead us to reconsider the passing points between the two concepts.
Source: Raisons politiques
DOI: 10.3917/rai.014.0005
Author: Jean-Marie Donegani
Institution: Centre de Recherches Politiques de Sciences Po
Language: French
Subfield: Music
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1998915655