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Author(s)
Akissi Amandine Konan, Roch Yao Gnabéli, Kando Amédée Soumahoro
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DOI:10.17265/2328-2177/2022.06.004
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Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire
ABSTRACT
Although the Gouro women producing foodstuffs in the department of Gohitafla claim to be in a double dynamics of precariousness and social weakening, they incur ostentatious expenses during funeral ceremonies. To understand this paradox, this text, based on interviews and participating observation, makes a detailed description of the financial involvement of these women in funeral practices in order to reveal its meaning. The results show that the ostentatious nature of female funeral expenses related to the transfer of the body, compensation and honorary practices are strategies for identity reconstruction and negotiation of political citizenship for those women.
KEYWORDS
ostentatious spending, funerals, female identity, political citizenship, Gohitafla, Côte d’Ivoire
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