Open AccessLa dot dagara : Les implications herméneutiques et intermédiales
Author(s) -
Thadée Balouhib Somda Kpanyawne
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
dialogos
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2734-5424
pISSN - 1582-165X
DOI - 10.24818/dlg/2021/38/15
Subject(s) - semiotics , dowry , westernization , service (business) , sociology , political science , humanities , psychology , social psychology , law , art , philosophy , epistemology , economy , economics , modernization theory
Some Africans more specifically some dagara, no more want nowadays that their futurehusbands pay the traditional dowry. Their parents think the contrary. The absence of thesesocial principles deprives this human association of its title of sacred union. Certainantagonisms of the two different worlds appear of which one is inclined to westernizationand the other to africanization. This tensive atmosphere led us to the reflection on ‘Thedagara dowry’. The problem that it creates is expressed by these terms: be known,explained, well interpreted to the service of the two rival parties. That is the reason of thefollowing sub-titles:”The hermeneutic and intermedial implications”. Our exegetics isbased on the behavioral semiotic of the signs and the dagara oral discourses.