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Roth, Molly Dulcinea.

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Ma Parole S'Achete: Money, identity and meaning in Malian jeliya.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Ma Parole S'Achete: Money, identity and meaning in Malian jeliya./
Author:	Roth, Molly Dulcinea.
Description:	430 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 64-10, Section: A, page: 3742.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International64-10A.
Subject:	Anthropology, Cultural. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoeng/servlet/advanced?query=3109215

Ma Parole S'Achete: Money, identity and meaning in Malian jeliya.
Roth, Molly Dulcinea.

Ma Parole S'Achete: Money, identity and meaning in Malian jeliya. - 430 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 64-10, Section: A, page: 3742.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Pennsylvania, 2003.

<?Pub Inc> This dissertation examines the contemporary social function of Malian <italic> jelis</italic> (‘griots’), arguing that material compensation and caste status are essential to a signifying practice with profound continuing relevance. As Mande society's hereditary “masters of the word,” <italic> jelis</italic> entrance their listeners with accounts of ancestors' heroic deeds, sometimes in the context of epic recitations and sometimes in popular song. These genealogical narratives function as praise in a society that understands filiation as an essential constituent of personality. Indexing an imperial social order with a fixed hierarchy and inherited bonds of obligation between patron and client, this praise reproduces the status inferiority of the caste of <italic>jelis</italic>. Gifts of cash and goods to the <italic>jelis</italic> on the occasions of these performances concretize the traditional obligations of nobles and, thus, realize the nobility of the givers. Material compensation makes the <italic>jelis</italic>' flattery true in ways it would not otherwise be. These gifts defy both the Maussian discussion of gifting and the Marxian analysis of commodity exchange, offering a new exchange model that implicates the symbolic and the material equally. The <italic>jelis</italic>' semiosis is performative in the sense that they help to create the historical imaginary to which their utterances refer.Subjects--Topical Terms:

735016
Anthropology, Cultural.

Ma Parole S'Achete: Money, identity and meaning in Malian jeliya.
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