L’honneur dans les sociétés Ouolof et Toucouleur du Sénégal

L’honneur dans les sociétés Ouolof et Toucouleur du Sénégal

Does a colonized people have “honour”? For the colonizers, this feeling (if such a somewhat weak word can be used) was simply one of susceptibility, but there was a code of honour in Wolof and Toucouleur society before the arrival of the Europeans and its imperatives varied from caste to caste. The...

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Main Author: Ly, Boubakar
Format: Article ou chapitre numérique
Language:Français
Published: 1967
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spelling cairn-PRESA_061_0032PRESAPrésence Africaine https://shs.cairn.info/revue-presence-africaine-1967-1-page-32?lang=fr https://doi.org/10.3917/presa.061.0032 L’honneur dans les sociétés Ouolof et Toucouleur du Sénégal Ly, Boubakar1967 fre Présence Africaine | 61 | 1 | 1967-03-01 | p. 32-67 | 0032-7638 PRESA_06139 Does a colonized people have “honour”? For the colonizers, this feeling (if such a somewhat weak word can be used) was simply one of susceptibility, but there was a code of honour in Wolof and Toucouleur society before the arrival of the Europeans and its imperatives varied from caste to caste. The noble, or “man of honour”, lost everything as soon as he lied — even the right to live. Only suicide could restore, this loss, and an offended man — even if he had done nothing dishonourable — had to wash the stain in his own blood.Cairn restricted access
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description Does a colonized people have “honour”? For the colonizers, this feeling (if such a somewhat weak word can be used) was simply one of susceptibility, but there was a code of honour in Wolof and Toucouleur society before the arrival of the Europeans and its imperatives varied from caste to caste. The noble, or “man of honour”, lost everything as soon as he lied — even the right to live. Only suicide could restore, this loss, and an offended man — even if he had done nothing dishonourable — had to wash the stain in his own blood.
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title L’honneur dans les sociétés Ouolof et Toucouleur du Sénégal
title_short L’honneur dans les sociétés Ouolof et Toucouleur du Sénégal
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title_sort l’honneur dans les sociétés ouolof et toucouleur du sénégal
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