The Politics of Joking Relationships in Burkina Faso
The Politics of Joking Relationships in Burkina Faso
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布基纳法索开玩笑关系的政治
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2006
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Sten Hagberg
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Sten Hagberg
本文论述了传统的开玩笑的关系，以及如何在当今布基纳法索的不同背景下表达这些社会政治。然而，虽然关于玩笑关系的经典人类学著作或多或少提供了功能主义的解释模型，但这种功能主义偏见在学术和流行著作中以及在布基纳法索知识分子的话语中仍然存在。我研究了两种不同的背景下，不同种族群体之间的开玩笑的关系，特别是在政治暴力的背景下。第一个背景是铁匠和富尔贝人之间的玩笑关系，1980年代以来在该国西部地区富尔贝人农牧民和当地农民群体之间爆发的许多暴力事件就说明了这一点。第二个背景是国家政治，在国家政治话语中使用玩笑关系。在本文中，我将论证，玩笑关系的制度不能仅仅被理解为过去的一种奇怪的残余，而必须定位于当今的国家政治文化。
The paper deals with traditional joking relationships and how these are expressed socio-politically in different contexts in present-day Burkina Faso. Yet while classical anthropological writings on joking relationships provided more or less functionalist explanatory models, such a functionalist bias is alive and well in academic and popular writings, as well as in the discourse of intellectuals in Burkina. I examine two different contexts of joking relationships between different ethnic groups, especially in the context of political violence. The first context is the joking relationship between blacksmiths and Fulbe as articulated in the many outbreaks of violence that have occurred in western parts of the country since the 1980s between Fulbe agro-pastoralists and local groups of farmers. The second context is that of national politics where joking relationships are used in national political discourse. Throughout the paper I will argue that the institution of joking relationship cannot be understood merely as a curious remnant of the past but must be located in present-day national political culture.