Ostentatious Funeral Expenses and Identity Reconstruction Among the Gouro Women of Gohitafla(Ivory Coast)  

作　　者：Akissi Amandine Konan Roch Yao Gnabéli Kando Amédée Soumahoro 

机构地区：[1]UniversitéFélix Houphouët-Boigny,Abidjan,Côte d’Ivoire

出　　处：《Cultural and Religious Studies》2022年第6期324-335,共12页文化与宗教研究（英文版）

摘　　要：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.

关 键 词：ostentatious spending FUNERALS female identity political citizenship Gohitafla Côte d’Ivoire 

分 类 号：D44[政治法律—政治学]