"""We Are Tagwa, but My Mother Is a Smith"": Ethnicity and Identity Transformations Among the Sena-Tagwa of Burkina Faso"

One contribution of this dissertation to West African ethnography is to explain that in Tagwa country blacksmiths do not constitute a homogenous set of people. Two distinct groups, Tuntun- and Fonon-smiths maintain contrasting relations with farmers. Again, descent is determined by historical factors that have nothing to do with language use and go against them. With all these factors at play, I discuss how a person's identity shifts or acquires new qualities in different contexts and opportunities.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Anthropology

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2015

Author dc:creator

• Bangali, Lamissa

Contributors dc:contributor

• Saul, Mahir

• Sociology, Social Structure and Development

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

(MiAaPQ)AAI3070258

OAI record oai:identifier

https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/oai-pmh?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=etdms&identifier=oai%3Awww.ideals.illinois.edu%3A2142%2F85248