Abstract

RAZY, Élodie. Ritual from day-to-day acts in childhood (soninké, Mali). Issues and possible inputs. Revista Col. San Luis [online]. 2019, vol.9, n.19, pp.351-373.  Epub Nov 19, 2020. ISSN 2007-8846.  https://doi.org/10.21696/rcsl9192019963.

This study aims to show the heuristic interest of an approach that links the analysis of various types of rituals (everyday or not) from the example soninké (Mali). In order to achieve this objective, a comparative anthropological approach was carried out based on a detailed ethnography of the daily/ritual and the rituals of birth/ritual gestures in childhood. Although it would not be possible to systematize the comparison of the rituals analyzed in order to verify the results, this study re-considers the traditional ritual area, and cross-analyzes the day-to-day and the ritual from childhood onwards. In this way, it is established that daily repetition is an engine of ritual effectiveness, which is retroactive. It is concluded that childhood anthropology feeds general anthropology and that the research approach makes it possible to overcome the "great division" between "the West" and the "rest" of the world.

Keywords : ritual; daily gestures; daily life; childhood; soninké; Africa (soninké).

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