Bullfighting and excision, two-faced traditions - Zinié Ella, Diomandé
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The history of peoples is based on traditions that are at the same time similar and different. In the case of bullfighting in Spain and female circumcision in the Ivory Coast, the protocol procedures, the use of blunt objects and the existence of a victim and an executioner establish the link. However, if the purely entertaining and professional characters give bullfighting its singularity, the initiatory particularity and the dependence on tradition are specific to excision. Clearly, bullfighting embodies openness to modernity, while female circumcision maintains tradition by closing itself off to any modern trend.…mehr

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The history of peoples is based on traditions that are at the same time similar and different. In the case of bullfighting in Spain and female circumcision in the Ivory Coast, the protocol procedures, the use of blunt objects and the existence of a victim and an executioner establish the link. However, if the purely entertaining and professional characters give bullfighting its singularity, the initiatory particularity and the dependence on tradition are specific to excision. Clearly, bullfighting embodies openness to modernity, while female circumcision maintains tradition by closing itself off to any modern trend.
Autorenporträt
Zinié Ella Diomandé hat einen Doktortitel in spanischer Zivilisation und lehrt und forscht an der Universität Félix Houphouet Boigny in Abidjan. Sie ist außerdem Schriftstellerin und Erzählerin und stammt aus Yorodougou im Westen der Elfenbeinküste.