Titre : | The poetics and politics of tuareg aging : life course and personal destiny in Niger |
Auteurs : | Susan J. Rasmussen, auteur du texte |
Type de document : | Ouvrage |
Editeur : | Northern Illinois University Press, 1997 |
ISBN : | 978-0-87580-220-6 |
Description : | 188p. |
Langues: | Anglais |
Classement : | FD90/ (PERSONNES AGEES A L'ETRANGER) |
Mots-clés : | Personne âgée ; Anthropologie ; Culture ; Niger ; Génération ; Représentation vieillesse |
Résumé : |
To what degree does culture influence our concepts of age and aging? In our own culture, chronology is crucial to perceptions of the aging process. Our expectations for a twenty-year-old, for example, are different from those we have for a sixty-year-old. So entrenched are our ideas about aging that the notion of measuring age in ways other than chronology may be startling.
In this unique ethnographical study of the people of the Kel Ewey confederation of Tuareg, Rasmussen explores age and aging in an African culture. A seminomadic community in northern Niger, the Tuareg understand aging in a way that is distinctly nonlinear—a dimension of life they measure outside of a chronological time frame. Instead, rituals related to marriage, childbirth, and death mark the process of aging. In this way the life course of an individual is more important to the notion of age than the literal age. A sense of private power and transformation of self over time are thus achieved through ritual. (4eme couv.) |
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100884 | ARCH/4236 | Ouvrage | Rennes | Compactus | Consultable sur place Exclu du prêt |