Notes on the Drum Language of the Ancient Mossi Kingdoms (Burkina Faso)(<Special Issue>Sound Cultures of Africa)

• Kawada Junzo

  Institute for the Study of Japanese Folk Culture, Kanagawa University

抄録

Transmission systems of verbal messages by means of drum or slit gong sounds are highly developed in Sub-Saharan African societies, where tonal languages are widely spoken. In West Africa, where peoples of the Oti-Volta language group such as the Mossi and Gurmantche in Burkina Faso have developed a hierarchical political system, a "pot-type drum with one membrane" made from a large spherical gourd that is covered with goal skin and beaten with the fingers of both hands is used to "relate" the long dynastic history of the monarch. The author presents a hypothesis based on 40 years of research that this type of drummer "relates" by using the fingertips of both hands instead of the voice.

収録刊行物

• Japanese Review of Cultural Anthropology

  Japanese Review of Cultural Anthropology 15 (0), 199-215, 2014

  日本文化人類学会

キーワード

• Talking drum
• dynastic history
• fingertips and language field of the brain

詳細情報

• CRID: 1390282680764064256
• NII論文ID: 110009934946
• DOI: 10.14890/jrca.15.0_199
• ISSN: 24240494
• ISSN: 24325112
• 本文言語コード: en
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  • CiNii Articles
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