"""We Are Tagwa, but My Mother Is a Smith"": Ethnicity and Identity Transformations Among the Sena-Tagwa of Burkina Faso"
Bangali, Lamissa
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Title
"""We Are Tagwa, but My Mother Is a Smith"": Ethnicity and Identity Transformations Among the Sena-Tagwa of Burkina Faso"
Author(s)
Bangali, Lamissa
Issue Date
2002
Doctoral Committee Chair(s)
Saul, Mahir
Department of Study
Anthropology
Discipline
Anthropology
Degree Granting Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree Name
Ph.D.
Degree Level
Dissertation
Keyword(s)
Sociology, Social Structure and Development
Language
eng
Abstract
One contribution of this dissertation to West African ethnography is to explain that in Tagwa country blacksmiths do not constitute a homogenous set of people. Two distinct groups, Tuntun- and Fonon-smiths maintain contrasting relations with farmers. Again, descent is determined by historical factors that have nothing to do with language use and go against them. With all these factors at play, I discuss how a person's identity shifts or acquires new qualities in different contexts and opportunities.
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