Martine Guichard

• Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology

Friendship, descent and alliance are basic forms of relatedness that have received unequal attention in social anthropology. Offering new insights into the ways in which friendship is conceptualized and realized in various sub-Saharan African settings, the contributions to this volume depart from the recent tendency to study friendship in isolation...

This article deals with collective sanctions imposed on or threatened to offenders who have expressed disagreement and hostility by verbally insulting their opponents. The focus will be on a kind of punishment that can only be inflicted on the members of certain social categories within the Fulbbe society of northern Benin. This punishment, which i...

M. Guichard — Developing an Ethnie Identity : The Fulani of Benin. The Borgou-Fulani Society in Benin differs from that in Cameroon and Nigeria in two important ways. The Fulani of Benin are an ethnie minority, and further-more, they have not played a politically dominant role either in colonial or postcolonial times. The Fulani civil servants rece...