TY - JOUR
T1 - Hyenas and heteroglossia
T2 - myth and ritual among the Beng of Côte d'Ivoire
AU - GOTTLIEB, ALMA
PY - 1989/8
Y1 - 1989/8
N2 - By focusing on how the Beng depict hyenas in oral literature and how they treat living hyenas in ritual activities, this article explores how each of these domains makes radically different statements about a single subject. In both cases, hyenas represent a form of subversion of society, but the value such subversion is given contrasts dramatically in the two realms under discussion. Bakhtin's concept of “heteroglossia” is used as a model for analyzing how two distinct realms of meaning in a single society may exist in mutual contradiction. [symbolic anthropology, myth, ritual, animal symbolism, laughter, West Africa] 1989 American Anthropological Association
AB - By focusing on how the Beng depict hyenas in oral literature and how they treat living hyenas in ritual activities, this article explores how each of these domains makes radically different statements about a single subject. In both cases, hyenas represent a form of subversion of society, but the value such subversion is given contrasts dramatically in the two realms under discussion. Bakhtin's concept of “heteroglossia” is used as a model for analyzing how two distinct realms of meaning in a single society may exist in mutual contradiction. [symbolic anthropology, myth, ritual, animal symbolism, laughter, West Africa] 1989 American Anthropological Association
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U2 - 10.1525/ae.1989.16.3.02a00050
DO - 10.1525/ae.1989.16.3.02a00050
M3 - Article
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VL - 16
SP - 487
EP - 501
JO - American Ethnologist
JF - American Ethnologist
SN - 0094-0496
IS - 3
ER -